How to convince your significant other to let you go to BM..

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:39 pm

Meantime, you two could have some fun together by "teaching" her how to pee into a funnel.

Take pictures.

Post them here.

misfit · Post by **misfit** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:21 pm

has she seen the web site and taken a look at the photo section.?. maybe start there.

dr.placebo · Post by **dr.placebo** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:41 pm

The question is perhaps better phrased as "how do I help my partner to feel safe if I go to Burning Man alone?" If you need permission to go then there are most likely some issues that need discussion regardless of the event.

I've been going since 1999 without my spouse. I had significant help from my/our therapist, who supported my going. We've stayed monogamous, and she has still not gone (although is becoming more interested).

Work on the communication angle. It's bound to help you both, regardless of whether either of you goes.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:51 pm

Nobody has a worse time at Burning Man than someone who has forced to go.

Unless it's the person who forced them to come along!

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:08 pm

what about when they were forced to go and it turned out that they are now more into it then the forcer?

thisisthatwhichis · Post by **thisisthatwhichis** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:45 pm

Fire_Moose wrote:what about when they were forced to go and it turned out that they are now more into it then the forcer?

Yea, I've seen that too.......

I think the title of the thread says it all...... someone else shouldn't have that much influence over you... nor you over her..... in a real relationship...... jus sayin....But, I'm an old fuck, what do I know...............

OnceTheDustClears · Post by **OnceTheDustClears** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:21 pm

I think the old fuck knows.

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:11 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:Nobody has a worse time at Burning Man than someone who has forced to go.

Unless it's the person who forced them to come along!

Not always true...

My (now) ex-wife forced me to go. The deal was I got to go see the band CockSparrer, IF I took her to Burning Man. Turns out, tickets for the show were sold out, and I wound up watching figure skating on TV that night.
We did make it to Burning Man, however. To make a long story short..I loved it! And she hated it! That was 1999, and I've been going ever since..with a couple exceptions, which I made up for at 4th of Juplaya..

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:54 am

Potsdam rocks but we should have been told
of freedoms new and rivals old
We played the set and we encored fast,
then the dressing room door was locked at last
In retrospect, the mistake was the fact that the sign didn't say: no baseball bats

That sucks you missed them Tom.