Healthy Relationships

by Jayson Scott Musson August 16, 2010 | 11:26 AM

Sometimes I'm very happy that I'm not in a secure romantic relationship. I dunno, it just seems to me that people who are in really healthy relationships are really, really boring. I mean, where's the spice in emotional security? Where's the excitement in this:

"I love you, my love."

"I love you too, my love, until our planet meets its demise at the hands of an asteroid, for as long as my body can still produce breath and excrement unaided by hospital machines, until Jesus comes back and we kill him again, I will, always love you, my love."

You see? No excitement at all. No umph. There's no jealousy, no distrust, no acerbic barbs that subtly scar two lovers until their hearts cauterize from the daily onslaught of passive-aggressive remonstrations. Now that shit, that's fun to me. Not knowing where you stand with someone, being so full of self-doubt that you question everything, believing nothing the person you're with tells you. I'm talking about the emotional equivalent of being an illiterate serf in Europe in like1204, and the bible is in fucking Latin and you can't read the gospels for shit even if it was in your language, and your priest has got you convinced that every little thing you do is gonna land you in hell. "The harvest failed this year... I'm done for." Now that's a relationship you maricóns!

I don't know why I find stability so boring. Maybe it’s my parent’s crappy marriage and subsequent divorce that sculpted my perceptions at a young age. I just found it way more interesting when my dad was trying to defend himself against my mother's sister slashing at him with a knife, or when immediately following my parent’s divorce, my dad would stop by the house under the pretense of visiting me and my younger brother, but he was really just coming over to take furniture that he bought during their marriage back to his new apartment. 

“WHERE IS THE BUMBACLOT LAMP IN THE LIVING ROOM!” my mom would say when she came home from work to find another piece of furniture missing. “Daddy came to visit again, Mom!” I’d tell her, and my mom would flip the fuck out and I’d get a real kick out of the creative way my mom could curse. It sounded like she was reciting an incantation or something, like she was a Jamaican sorceress. 

Please, don’t get me wrong Reader, I do think Love is grand and all that, and that Love is really the only thing worth living for, and sometimes when I’m on slutload.com, or wankdb.com, or on tnaflix.com, I do stop and say to myself “Man, I think I need a girlfriend, all this semen is getting wasted on pixel women.” That’s when I fish out an old issue of Playboy from my bookshelf and pretend the glossy finish of the magazine’s pages are the silk panties of a super cute girl and I think, “Now this is more like it, something tactile to get biz to. This love is really real. I wonder if the girl in the centerfold would come alive like in Weird Science if I smeared my cum all over this page and wished really hard for her to be real? Only one way to find out.”

Yeah, that shit didn’t work. 
(Hi Ladies!)

Total Comments: 11

August 16, 2010 | 9:22 PM Posted by: silas that ending of true blood last night was epic. I dunno about the realtionship thing ive had some great experiences but it comes down to the fact that im married to my music. Then i look at friends who are all married etc and the last time i went out they were talking about how they were structuring credit card payments and really getting into it, i left. Its weird like i either i forgot to grow up, not that im not responsible or they forgot how to have a good time. I think people buy into this culturally programed version of what you do at certain stages of life or not.
August 16, 2010 | 11:50 PM Posted by: Allofya WHERE THE F IS THE F IS THE PLASTIC LITTLE JASON
August 17, 2010 | 4:01 AM Posted by: Boog So I was gonna post a comment saying that I think you're a good writer, but better if you didn't try as hard. Then I read the last paragraph, and was like 'hell, I can't fuck with that.' So good job.
August 18, 2010 | 4:10 AM Posted by: Alex analog porn is the ONLY porn. i don't fuck with that digital shit.
August 23, 2010 | 6:20 PM Posted by: ken I thought you got rid of this idiot. shame.
August 24, 2010 | 7:04 PM Posted by: Jayson Scott Musson Allofya, don't know when that's happening. Boog, I try not to try, a lot. Alex, agreed. Ken, what up homie, how you been dawg? I'm still waiting for the mpeg of you listening to hold the line so I can make another mpeg of me jerking off to it. Or you can come to philly and kick it in my apartment and we can watch hentai porn together and jerk off side by side? have you ever seen La Blue Girl? DOPE! Or better yet, if you want to, you can write the next Black Like, just email Cole or Diplo and they'll hook it up. "Black Like Me by Ken. Ken from the internet" I love it already.
August 24, 2010 | 7:05 PM Posted by: Jayson Scott Musson Oh, I almost forgot: OHLEHDOIT!
November 19, 2010 | 2:47 PM Posted by: Curran you ever watch a porn and have your headphones on so your neighbors or roomates caint here you and find out what your proclivities are? well if you do there is this weird scrambling sound I hear from time to time. Some kinda brainwashing, I'm sure. Not sure what the purpose is. Probably to sell dick pills.
January 05, 2011 | 2:47 AM Posted by: kt i love how you just rip these hecklers apart! (so to speak) i agree though. Jealousy shows some one that you either have a problem, are a control freak or you really care for them. and not knowing which one makes it exciting, sometimes. keep them coming! :D
June 19, 2011 | 11:48 AM Posted by: Githa That saves me. Thanks for being so sesnbile!
August 19, 2011 | 9:18 PM Posted by: Atlanticgolfer Son, you better get ur shit right. Come see ur shrink and have a drink while u at it.