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I have a fetish for the traditional body parts. You know.. there’s two of them on the chest… Bottom and legs aren’t bad either. ok, but I digress..

On this season of the Bachelorette one of the gentlemen has a very, in your face, foot fetish. I think that’s great! More power too you.. whatever turns you on.

But does anyone else find that for something, not so traditional, you might want to keep it under wraps for a while until the other party gets to know you a bit more. And that maybe you might even make it a bit more private or not quite… in your face?

I had to look away! My wife couldn’t believe it either.. she actually has a friend who has an ex-husband who had a shoe fetish; that was quite strange as well. OK, that was stranger. But it’s kind of one of those..

..Too much information!

Now maybe that’s just us.. maybe we react that way because it is so foreign. Personally I could care less, but it’s like a lot of things. Do what you want, but not in front of me.

What do you think? Is Tanner a little over board here? Do you think it’s creepy? Cool.. if you are a woman is something like that a complete turn off? Or do you overlook it and get to know that guy anyway?

Should he have waited to tell her until she got to know him otherwise?

-Joe Taylor

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Real Life.. definitely. After the show ends…

Did you watch the 3 hour Bachelor Finale? Was it painful for you too?

All you have to do is read some blogs today and comments across the web and you will see a divided crowd. Some just hate Jason for what he did..

I will tell you this though, people can be very different in different environments.

To give you one real life comparison.. My wife before she met me was married to a Marine stationed in Hawaii. She went to visit him there a dozen times before he moved back to her hometown here in Wisconsin.

As soon as he was out of the military environment and took his uniform off, he turned into Mr. Loser *sshole. Her words not mine.

He couldn’t hold a job.. he was rude and insensitive to her, her family and friends. He let himself go.. was a slob.

He simply turned into a different person; and of course, to my benefit, they got a divorce.

Well, giving Jason in the Bachelor the benefit of the doubt, who’s to say that didn’t happen and out of respect he’s not going to go into great detail with the general public?

What if she turned into a real *itch? What if she became controlling.. Maybe it wasn’t that bad, but maybe a combination of minor differences that changed her whole personality.

People are different in different environments. And a show like this is going to have more failures than successes because it’s an unnatural setup. Look.. you can’t force love. And you can’t force decisions. You can’t put a time limit and force someone to choose. It doesn’t work that way in the real world.

The Bachelor works as a show because its’ entertaining and people love soap opera-ish stuff. But as a real model to find your true love, it sucks!

Blend that with caring for multiple people at the same time.. in exotic situations they are in? Wow..

My wife says it’s like they know the “Vacation Person” when they are on the show…

That’s probably the case for a lot of these shows.

As soon as you are back into the real world and have to live a normal life, many things change.. and people will act and even look different.

Maybe Melissa doesn’t shower everyday.. and only did on the show.

Actually.. I loved Melissa. And rooted for him to pick her. She does seem like a really nice and sweet person and I don’t mean any disrespect and wish her the best.

Just trying to look at it logically.

In the end, no one will probably really know what happened.. and Jason has to follow his heart and mind. If he is still with Molly in 10 years living a happy, happy life, then it was the right thing for him to do.

-Joe Taylor

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I will admit it.. I watch ER. And only because it’s a tradition since the day I met my beautiful wife. She’s a nurse and of course it’s been her favorite show for years. It’s an hour every week we sit down together on the couch and spend us time.

But I will also admit, I love the show. I haven’t missed an episode in many years.. and I’ve grown to love the characters.

To the point of this post…

I couldn’t believe it when Sam dumped Tony at the end of this last episode (”The High Holiday”). I understand she is pissed at him for giving in to the children and it leading to her son’s accident.. and she’s gone into protective mode with her child.

But come on! Poor Tony.. having him walk off at the end with the dog. I was sad!

He didn’t mean for what happened to happen.. he made a mistake. He didn’t cause the accident. If someone makes a mistake and it indirectly causes an accident.. well, that’s just something that can’t be blamed. (unless of course, it’s a regular occurrence and you fear for the safety of the child.. buy once?)

She seemed so matter of fact about it.. so I don’t have high hopes they’ll get back together.

And I know it’s just fiction and all.. …but maybe it was something that needed to happen to reveal the true nature of their love and to reveal it wasn’t meant to be.

Anyway! I feel strange as a guy talking about ER.. but, I’m man enough to do it!

And this is a relationship blog right?

What do you think if you saw the show?  Was it justified?

-Joe Taylor

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