Some guys my age will know what I am saying when I mention about loneliness and what it can do to a guy.
In my case losing my wife after 30 years of marriage was a real shock and I felt that I could never find another like her.
And anyway I felt I did not want the commitment of another involved relationship.
But to be frank the sexual urge was still there and I had to live with it for nigh on seven years, because during that time my wife had developed cancer which meant that her sex drive was virtually gone.
It had never ever occurred to me about linking up with another person, maybe evena guy; but then I had never had reason to explore my sexual leanings before, having been quite happy with my wife until the illness set in.
But since I was being both logical and practical in coming to the conclusion that a male sexual relationship would not incur too much commitment if arranged on a strictly casual and mutual basis, perhaps like someone of my own disposition, who like me missed the pleasure of sex and the like..
I took to sitting in the local park thinking that maybe another guy would join me and we might get talking - which would develop onto other things and ... well you know how it is..
My fantasies were beginning to run away with me. How it would be with another guy? and wishing it would be soon. I certainly didn't fancy hanging around the gents toilets and I could not imagine myself as being a 'toilet basher' if you know what I mean.
I wanted sex but I also wanted some sort of companionship - not just a quickie in a toilet cubicle and taking a risk of being caught with my trousers down.
But they say patience is a virtue and one day, with the help of the utopia chat room online, I was able at last to arrange a meeting with a guy ten years younger called Ron who actually turned up. Not like a dozen others who said they would and didn't. How infuriating is that!? But talking about it to Ron he replied that guys like that were of no use anyway and weren't worth bothering about.
He was a nice guy and we soon got on very well. I introduced myself as Pete and put my cards on the table, so if he wanted to opt out he could. But happily he told me he had often wondered how it would be with another guy, a guy who understood and was not about dump him after a first encounter.
"Shall we try then Ron?" I asked having chatted with him for about an hour on the park bench about our life and where we were right now, he was widowed too but for a different reason, his Mrs being killed in a car accident.
It is difficult to explain just how I felt that first time I took Ron home to my place. Just the feeling of that was electric - we ventured to explore our inner feelings with each other, just standing there facing each other. Looking into each others eyes was magic and I felt a certain kind of enchantment I could never have invisaged before.
Funny thing it turned out we both had similar expectations of each other and he said he fantasised too. Telling me he had dreamed of how it would be touching another guy, that he had never done that before.
"And doesn't it feel so good that at last we have met on a mutual understanding and we can both cherish the experience together, for neither have I touched another guy, so I guess we ought to do something about it?" I said feeling my quintessentials start to throb.