Actually, yea. We've been going out for about 3 years now. My previous relationships had been disasters- either we fought tooth and nail because either they were cheating on me or I was being a cold bastard to them (I'm not exactly the worlds most touchy feely heartfelt-talk kind guy here) or jealousy towards my every move made time away from them something that I looked forward to more than being with em. after nearly 10 years of failed relationships, my hopes weren't high. 😛
Finally, my last undergrad semester I had a software eng class with some really cute girl I had seen around the department. I noticed guys trying to hit on her every once in a while, but never got the impression she had a boyfriend, so I decided it was my goal to date her. Turned out, I was right. She was relatively unapproachable simply because she was shy as crap, and it gave most of the guys that talk to her the impression that she was dating someone, so they bolted. Of course, I'm the epitome of persistence, so it didn't phase me in the least. =D With enough time and effort, I finally convinced her to go out with me. (I lost a few friends over that one- the second they realized they could have asked her out they acted like I destroyed their world or something).
Turned out we had a lot in common. I'm a big gamer (console and computers)- turns out she is as well. I love Sci-fi and metal. Well, she didn't at the time but had never really been shown to them. She now listens to disturbed and metallica regularly and we're watching Babylon 5 from the beginning. We enjoy the same movies, tv shows, things to do outside, etc... and she's still out of my league so it works well.
While we were dating I found out she was wickedly ticklish. I don't mean just ticklish like you see in a video with some hees and some haas. No... I found a chance to snag her sides and I swear she probably gave me neighbors a heart attack, not to mention me. The shock of how loudly and violently she took the attack left ME panting more than her. 😛 And it wasn't just her sides... it was EVERYWHERE. 0_o. Head to toe, if I moved my hand too softly she'd bust out in an array of giggles... to hard and she'd guffaw like she was watchin an episode of 3 stooges (come on, you know they're funny) and thrash like I had set her on fire.
Originally I thought it was a curse more than a blessing. Folks that ticklish generally hate being tickled, so I was prepared to give it up completely! I had continued a little more, here and there. She was say something playfully annoying (a quip at my sentence or some sarcastic remark) and get tickled in retaliation. Eventually, after nearly demolish me, my car and my apartment with a tornado of rabid thrashing after every tickle attack, I decided she didn't like it and was too nice to say it. So I quit.
A few days later I started to take notice that her sarcastic remarks... grew. A lot. >_> Things she knew would pointedly annoy the bejeebus out of me she would say or do in greater amounts. Finally, at my breaking point, I tickled her again for some sound she made in the car. Ahhh... relief from retaliation is a great thing. Then she made it again. Immediately. 0_o. So, in turn, I attack again. This repeated for a while. This turned into sort of a reoccuring theme we had for a while until I realized something a week later: she was actually taunting me into tickling her. It took me so much by surprise that I actually made the statement before thinking about it- "I'm getting the feeling you actually LIKE being tickled". "Maybe". 0_o On the way home, we made a trip to Walmart for some rope. 🙂
I can't call our first tie and tickle session a long one. My bondage skills are on par with a 90 year old blind person, so the ropes only hold for maybe 20 minutes or so. But for those 20 minutes I epically laid into her. My bed is worthless for this sort of thing, having no 4 posts, but I made do by running the rope under the bed and just spreading her out a little more. Since we were still in the early part of the relationship I didn't really ask her to undress or anything, but it was ok- her shirt was just long enough to reach her belt with her arms relaxed AND was button up. Stretched out all over the bed it was hardly much of a shirt at all. It was a good 20 minutes (for me, not my neighbors. They made comments about "wtf was that" the next day =D)
Enter 3 years later. Almost nothing has changed. I kept waiting for "the honeymoon" to end, and the fights to begin like other relationships before it. But they didn't. She still likes being tickled, and I tie her up every once in a while, but tbh it's faster and more effective for me to just hold her down (the difference in our strength is big enough to doesn't take away from the tickling). We haven't gotten married yet- we're grad students- but we do have an understanding that eventually we'll get there. I tickle her all the time. In the car. Out of the car. Watching tv. Going to sleep. It's like an addiction that I need TA (tickleholics anonymous) to get away from. Every time I see an inch of side under the her shirt (or especially when there is no shirt at all!), its like it must be done. But the crazy part- she still loves it. And if I stop, she thinks something is wrong like I'm mad or something. 0_o
And 3 years later... despite all the practice, my bondage skills are still terrible. I've been tempted to go to nest just to have someone sit me down and show me, hands on, how to tie a stupid rope. But its so far away and it seems like an awfully long trip just for that. lol
Anyways, that's my story. The relationship is going great. We play games, watch anime/sci-fi shows, listen to all sorts of music, I tickle the bejeebus out of her randomly, we agree on just about everything and she is still out of my league. Maybe "the honeymoon" hasn't ended yet or maybe this is just how it will be forever. Either way, I really feel that I've been blessed.
