Love Life

A girl at work asked me how many sexual partners had I had in my life.

Don't know, I said. I've lost count.

Just a ball park figure, she said.

Don't know, I said. 

I really don't. I remember one month I counted them up and it was twenty. But, I didn't want to tell her that.

Come on, you must have some idea, she said.

I was kind of caught off guard. One a month, I said. 

But I knew sometimes it was one a week. I knew sometimes it was one a night. But the look on her face at one a month told me not to go any higher. She looked shocked at that.

Over how many years, she asked nervously?

Five, I said. Trying to do the additions in my head, as I said it. (Of course, it is more than five years. and more than one a month, over a considerable number of years)

In reality, I reckon it would be closer to one per week for 20 years. You do the maths.

SMS. 19.25. I’m so over it and there is so far to go! – Christian 

SMS. 19.25. What where when how? – Rachel 

SMS. 19.30. Wedding. They’re just sitting down to dinner. Been going since 3pm – Christian 

SMS. 20.12. It will end in tears – Rachel

SMS. 20.20. I fear it will. Possibly mine – Christian