MONSTER ALLEY/FEBRUARY WRITING CHALLENGE
Showering With a (Boy)Friend
What showering with my partner means to me
I’ve been with my partner, Mike, for almost ten years. We’ve showered together many times. It’s something that we have either done out of necessity or out of comfort. I mean, if we both want to shower, why should we have to take two showers?
The only exception to the two showers is when we’re in public as we are now. I don’t want anyone getting the wrong idea of seeing two men in the same shower together around strangers.
Sometimes, our showers can be intimate and fun, but that’s not the time I’m here to talk about today. I’m not running an erotica account. If you want to read that kind of stuff, this is not the right place. Anyway, I’m here to talk about how showering with my partner helps us when either of us is feeling unwell or too sore to stand up on our own.
Sometimes, we need each other in the bathroom. Even if I’m not showering with him, I’ll sit in the bathroom with him and make sure he’s okay. Other times, it’s also nice to have someone who loves me showering next to me because he can clean me and vice versa. Not every foray into bathroom shower time has to be sexy time. We’ve been together long enough that that certain aspect of the relationship isn’t even a huge deal anymore.
We enjoy being there for each other and showering together is a large part of that togetherness and spending time together. Since we’ve been doing campgrounds because we haven’t gotten our RV bathroom up and running yet, we have to shower in separate stalls but we’re still together and that’s important to both of us. Showering is something I feel dirty doing alone.
I always feel much safer and loved when I’m showering either with or next to my lovely, supportive partner. I mean, I wouldn’t turn down showering next to or with Ryan Reynolds, but that’s a dream and a story for another time and place. I swear I’m keeping this PG-13.
Shower time with a friend is never more meaningful when that friend is your most important friend of all, your (boy)friend, a partner who knows and loves you better than anyone in the whole world outside of your parents, maybe.
What do you feel about showering? Do you feel comfortable showering with a friend, a significant other, or anyone else worth mentioning?
For those who shower alone, I feel that pain. I did that for a large chunk of my life.
I’m not trying to gloat that I have an amazing man that helps me take care of myself but it helps because my mobility isn’t where it once was. I’m always afraid I’ll fall down or in if I’m alone even though I occasionally still shower alone when I need to.
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