I Want To Snuggle With You

Sep. 14, 2011
She’s a skeptical bundle of fun with a great rack.

I want to snuggle with you. I’d like to lie on you and put my head on your shoulder and breathe in the same rhythm that you’re breathing. I want to use one of my hands to rub your head, down to your neck, then to your arm, and then hold your hand. I’d like to rest my other hand on your hipbone, which is my favorite part of your body because it’s a straight and bony hip, nothing like my curvy, soft one.

I’d like to stay there long enough so that our awkwardness goes away. I’d like to feel you give into the moment. Don’t ask yourself if this is too intimate. Don’t worry about sending me signals that you like me too much. Don’t think about what will happen with us tomorrow. Stop wondering if your team is winning and how much longer it will be until I get off of you so you can turn the game on.

Make a joke after a few moments of peace, one of those jokes that isn’t funny because of its sharp wit, but funny because it’s a comment on our current state, designed to make both of us ease further into the bubble of each other that we’re currently floating in. You could say something about how I’m as pale as the sheets, or how your pet is staring at us from the corner, or how the lady upstairs is walking like an elephant. And we’ll laugh together. Not the laugh that we shared in the bar with our friends. Not the laugh that comes when you watch an episode of Flight Of The Conchords. Not the laugh that you force when your boss says something mean. This will be the laugh that you saved just for me, the one that’s vulnerable and soft and sweet, because that’s how you’re feeling towards me right now. You won’t think about what I said last week that made you angry. You won’t feel guilty for that thing you did that I would be upset about if I knew. You won’t plan what you’re having for dinner tonight. You will soak the right now of this up. Our moment.

I’d like you to play with my hair. Don’t pat my head with a flat hand, put your fingers under my hair, on my scalp, and then run them through my hair like it’s a waterfall. Wrap both of your arms around me and give me a long, tight squeeze, the kind where in the last second, I need to inhale but I can’t. Then I’d like you to close your eyes, so I can prop myself over your face and study your features freely without you looking back at me. I want to kiss your jaw line, fondle your earlobes, sweep my cheek against yours. I want to stroke the slope of your nose and your eyelids and admire your eyelashes.

I’d like you to run your thumb over my lips. Cup my face with both of your hands. And I want you to kiss me. This will be a kiss that liquefies from light to deep and then back to light. A seemingly endless kiss that doesn’t lead to anything else. It doesn’t need to. We’ll share it simply to feel the warmth that it brings on its own. Then I want you to roll me over. Lie on top of me and hold our arms over our heads so that I can feel all of your weight, strong and heavy and masculine.

I want you to start at the beginning and do it again. TC mark

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  • Rhee

    This is sweet. 

  • Fart

    Dump her, she’s too clingy!

  • ashley

    yes.

  • grace

     bookmarked ♥

  • Anonymous

    Yes. Light, then deep, then light. Not many know how to do it right. Most just go straight for the tonsils.

  • A123

    sigh. so sweet. 

  • http://twitter.com/HouseofJules HouseofJules

    Exactly.

  • http://summerslowrunner.wordpress.com/ Summer

    This post defines my own situation right now. I love every single word of it, particularly the ones in the second paragraph.

  • peggle

    Hahaha! 

  • star

    This makes me miss snuggling so much. :(

    This article definitely captures the feeling that snuggling brings – just the two of you, forgetting the outside world and feeling like you’re stupid for always overanalyzing everything in your relationship.

  • http://www.jeremymeyers.com/ Jeremy Meyers

    And when do I put it in?

  • http://twitter.com/mung_beans 371747

    before the snuggling happens

  • Leetal

    this is what i want… i miss this. 

  • mysticlipstick

    I have this feeling but I can’t have it because we’re so far apart. 

  • Danielle G

    absolute. perfection. 

  • teets

    Thanks for this :)

  • CarmenOhio

    The rolling you over and laying on top of you one is new to me.  God, I’ve been cuddling all wrong for years!

  • Frankie

    The really sad thing about this, for me, is the fact that I picture myself with this guy from my school that I have liked since the first time I met him… I pictured this guy instead of my own boyfriend…

  • loveit

    This article is the female version of porn. I can’t get enough.

  • Greencamaro67

    Perfection.

  • Nicole A.

    I love having my boyfriend lay on me with his head resting on my stomach, or on my chest listening to my heartbeat…This makes me miss him a lot :(

  • MC

    loved it, but it made me so sad. this describes an exact moment I had last week. and this week he chose her instead of me. how can he choose her when we had this?

  • http://www.lizamae.com Liza Mae

    You couldn’t explain it any better.  sighh.. 

  • http://www.lizamae.com Liza Mae

    You couldn’t explain it any better.  sighh.. 

  • Anonymous
  • Ajax

    *sighhh*  this is such a charming peice of art, so real – I couldn’t help but think of the chemistry I had with this man who I’d liked from the moment I saw him, as us fickle girls do…  He stayed over one night and it was almost like a dream..  Too bad wonderful things don’t last forever

  • http://karyninny.com/ karyn

    oh, the weight of a man. swoon. 

  • Sophia

    This is a piece of art. Absolute perfection.

  • Sophia

    This is a piece of art. Absolute perfection.

  • Clonewolf1

    Here is how this poem would go if a GUY wrote it:I Want To Shaggle With You

    By George Clonewolf Cloney

    I want to shaggle with you. I’d like to gently, yet warmly kiss you girl and slosh tongues in the same rhythm that you’re sloshing tongues. I’m tired of using one of my hands to rub one out so please lover, romantically, drop down to your knees, raise your arm, and take it in your hand. I’d like you to rest the
    other hand on my pucker star, which is the second favorite part of my body
    because it’s a straight and bony pucker star, nothing like your curvy, soft one.

    I’d like to stay there long enough until my manly release if that is ok? Or until our awkwardness goes away. Either is good, but for the record I would prefer the manly release.
    I’d like to feel you give into the slamnatious rhythm of my hips. Don’t ask yourself if this
    is too intimate.
    Don’t worry about sending me signals that you like me too much. The fact that you’re doubled over with legs in the air and makeup smeared from tears of jackhammer joy lets me know full well that you think more of me than “just a friend”. Don’t
    think about what will happen tomorrow after you cook me some eggs. Stop wondering if we are being intimate enough and how much longer it will be until I get off of you so we can snuggle.

    Make a joke after a few moments of post-coital, one of those jokes that
    isn’t funny because its “girl” humor which isn’t normally funny to a guy anyway, but funny because it’s a comment
    on our current geographic location with respect to the wet spot on the bed. Let our moment of closeness be designed to make both of us ease further from the wet spot that we’re currently floating in. You could say
    something about how I’m as bad ass a lover as Burt Reynolds or someone, or how your Buddha statue is
    staring at us from the corner and now you feel guilty, or how the lady upstairs is totally hot and you might possibly be “into it” if I was. And we’ll laugh together. Not the laugh that we shared in
    the bar with our friends. Not the laugh that comes when you watch an
    episode of Entourage. Not the laugh that you
    force when your boss says something that makes me want to ride my scooter down to Starbucks and clock him in his Barrista-smiling scone-hole, no this will be the laugh that
    you saved just for me, the one that’s weird, publicly embarrassing, yet sweet,
    because that’s how you’re feeling towards me right now. You won’t think
    about all the coffee cups and oven mitts I tried to steal while waiting for you to finish shopping at Kohl’s last week, and which somehow, I don’t know,  made you angry? You won’t feel guilty
    for overreacting like you did when picking me up at the holding tank for non-violent criminal violations. I still don’t know what got you so pissed off. Anyways, you won’t
    plan what you’re having for dinner tonight because I stopped at McDonalds on the way over and picked you up a fish filet and a football follies DVD to watch together tonight. You will soak the right now
    of this up. Our moment. Football follies. Fish Filets. Boom.

    I’d like you to play with my hair. Anywhere you want, where ever I’m growing it. I’ve got hair everywhere and that is what you love so much about me. Especially that I like to show it off with a good old fashioned skin-tight low cut tank top. Don’t pat the head with a flat
    hand, put your fingers under it, on it, and then run them
    through the hair like it’s a bush of love. Wrap both of your arms around the pooper
    and give me a long, tight squeeze, the kind where in the last second, I accidentally release a little bomb back there, you know the kind, where your straining and straining to hold it in and you are on the precipice of gaseous destruction and even the slightest little thing can cause the greatest, longest blast of fish-filet smelling nastiness that we don’t even want to talk about in our moment of intimate romance, watching football follies. Then I’d like you to close your eyes, so I
    can adjust myself freely without
    you watching me, I’ve got some pride too you know. I want to again gently yet warmly kiss you girl, fondle your globes, slosh my tongue against yours. I want to stroke the slope of
    your nose and your eyelids without getting any tartar sauce on them and admire from afar, how much time it takes for the average girl to put mascara on.

    I’d like you to run your thumb over my lips. Cup my face with both of
    your hands. And I want you to suck my tongue right out of me. This will be a kiss that is sloppy with overactive saliva glands brought on from the salt of the fish filets and lukewarm french fries. Let it go from light sucking to deep turbo vacuum sucking and then just straight up oral sex again I guess. Seemingly endless oral sex  that doesn’t lead to my having to reciprocate necessarily, I mean, I could, I guess but, It doesn’t need to. You’ll do it simply to feel the warmth that it brings on its own. Then I
    want you to roll me over. Gently rest your beer on top of me and hold mine while I do some pilates exercises in the nude, with all my body hair, flowing in the gentle breeze of that fan I bought you from Walmart for Christmas.

    Then, I want you to start at the beginning and do it again.

  • J0persha

    I wish I could believe something as good as that could happen in real life

  • Danielle G

    oh it can. I’ve definitely experienced this and it is indeed good. 

  • Anonymous
  • http://twitter.com/alinatrifan Alina Trifan

    I have FREAKING GOOSEBUMPS!

  • Vicky

    This is what we all want… Beautiful piece Karyn. Perfection. I love your style of the written word. I would pay $ for a book of perfect pieces like this one. You can’t give this away so freely. I will wait patiently. Your biggest fan, Vicky

  • Vicky

    The thumb caress across the lips, face hold to the liquifying light kiss deepening and then back to light…
    S W O O N ! Oh my…

  • Neil Kurtz

    Euphoric words. Saturday can’t come soon enough…

  • http://twitter.com/GeneHogan gthogan

    This is what I want. 

  • http://karyninny.com/ karyn

    so not into shaggling with a dude who re-writes my thoughts. 

  • Franco

    I don’t think the dude was serious looks like it was in fun I liked the rewrite. “Slamnatious hips” awesome!

  • Anonymous

    I wish I wrote this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nicolasa.ortiz Nico Ortiz

    Ew.  Pre-teen, media- generated fantasy.

  • Jenn

    “ Our moment. Football follies. Fish Filets. Boom.”

    Can we go on a date?!

  • http://www.twitter.com/mexifrida Frida

    i feel you. hurts.

  • Marie Elise

    You just described my boyfriends behavior in your wishes, thanks for reminding me that I´m the luckiest girl in the world!

  • Alice

    Sending this to my husband of 22 years.  He was offended earlier this week when I asked for just this.  Makes me sad.

  • Steffers

    This was brilliant xD

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723079259 Kitarina Brown

    I have to disagree with you on that. I think this is a lovely little window into those slow, hesitant moments when you are first getting to know someone else and their body. I do not see how this is a ‘media-generated fantasy’. It’s called being intimate and people have been doing it for quite some time now actually. Each to their own opinion, but just because you haven’t experienced something doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist in the real world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723079259 Kitarina Brown

    This is very sweet. I love the description of wanting to feel his weight. So many men think it is a problem or that they will squish us if they lay on us. Feels quite nice actually.

  • Imagirl

    but a good way to let him know how to get himself a nice bj.

  • Jem

    dont fuck with the football ladies :)

  • Anonymous

    I don’t see how simply cuddling with someone is a “media-generated fantasy.” My boyfriend and I cuddle all the time. Sometimes it leads to sex, sometimes we just want to cuddle. My friends and I cuddle as well. There is nothing generated about it; it is a fairly natural want/action. Once you hit a certain intimacy with someone (be it friendly or romantic) cuddling is like a walk in the park.

  • Dan

    Laughter, of this kind? Says “I don’t want to be anywhere else, with anyone else, that simply your presence is the joy in my life.”
    That’s the kind of laughter here….

  • Ddnlj

    I wasted a lot of years wishing for someone who be like this. Wish I’d paid more attention to taking care of myself instead of hoping for a romantic who didn’t exist.

  • Clonewolf1

    Um. Yes we can. I wouldn’t get my hopes up if I were you though. The Football Follies VHS is currently checked out at the library. You might have to settle for Smokey and The Bandit II.

  • Clonewolf1

    Aww. Karyn, impersonation is the highest form of flattery. Even Mozart wrote variations of the compositions of his colleagues, Einstein borrowed math formulas to comprise his theory of relativity, and Dom Delouise was always riding Burt Reynolds’ coattails. So, I guess in an accidental way, I’ve just sort of referred to myself as Mozart, Einstein, and Dom Delouise all rolled into. one…Awesome.

    And to set the record straight, the thought of shagging with you never entered my mind while re-composing your lovely composition, I mean, don’t get me wrong, its not that I don’t like you or anything. I just don’t think of you “that” way you know? I’m sure you’re great and all, but you just don’t strike me as my “type” you know: the kind of girl that will just kick her Nascar flipflops up on the engine block I use for a coffee table, and hold my Pabst Blue Ribbon beer while I dig the caked motor oil out of my fingernails? Or better yet, she will do it for me? mmmm…swoon.  Anyway, I think you’re great but lets just be friends OK? Its not you, its me. Keep up the great writing.

    Love,

    George

  • Generic Human

    You are wonderful. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the original too, but this was a nice rebuttal. Meow Gusta.

  • Eshw0825

    used to have a guy like this…cant imagine having this with anyone else. too bad ill never be able to get him back

  • Eshw0825

    used to have a guy like this…cant imagine having this with anyone else. too bad ill never be able to get him back

  • Indué

    tbh this was disgusting. people needa stfu and live on because your definition of perfection changes with each time you find a new version

  • Ali

    Dude,
    Not everybody in the world is a douche and therefore some people believe that this is attainable. Now if you could kindly shut the fuck up so that the rest of us could enjoy this woman’s beautiful work of art it would be greatly appreciated.
    Sincerely,
    Someone who is lucky enough to get to enjoy a partner like this.

  • Keltydennis

    So perfectly written. There is nothing like the weight of a man on top of you. Nothing.

  • Torridfoxx

    …someone’s bitter….

  • Torridfoxx

    Yeah. You need to get laid.

  • Torridfoxx

    ….describing a cuddle scene makes you want to jerk off?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502418935 Haley Smith

    Adorable.. Slamnatious? Really??
    Marry me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1781767179 Merrick Johnson

    err… no.

  • George Clonewolf Cloney

    The short answer? Yes. YES I WILL MARRY YOU! I was waiting and waiting for you to ask. I’m so excited. I’ll start making the arrangements. There is a beautiful Arby’s right near City Hall that would serve as SUCH a romantic setting for our reception…mmm swoon. Don’t worry about the cost, we’ll only have open-drink fountain for the first hour, thereafter everyone can buy their own Jamocha shakes. Then you and I will depart for our honeymoon in the tropical paradise for newlyweds: Kingman, AZ. My cousin has already promised to loan me his 84 Camaro for the trip over. Then, its all about MAKIN BABIES…baby. I’m thinking 4 boys and 3 girls would that be enough? Mostly so we have help harvesting the weeds in the field behind our trailer (“our” trailer…I can’t believe I’m saying that ALREADY!) Ah Haley Cloney – has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? I know right!? Anyway, we’ll be so happy together.

  • HK

    I don’t understand the negative comments here, or the ones that say that boys don’t want this or aren’t like this. My boyfriend is the one who found this, and he read it aloud to me while we were laying together on my bed. It’s really beautiful.

  • http://mycrazytruth.tumblr.com Kat

    I miss it too…so much.  I fear I’ll never have it again.

  • Guy

    You get off to this??

    Weird.

  • Gred

    I’m 400 pounds and hairy as hell. You don’t mind, do you Karyn?

    Nah you’ve had worse. ;)

  • DaynNight

    That would be the wise course of action. You have an admirable brain, fart.

  • DaynNight

    That would be the wise course of action. You have an admirable brain, fart.

  • Toobad

    This is what I’d do with a girl if I had a girlfriend.

  • George Clonewolf Cloney

    you and me both, sister.

  • Clonewolf1

    bj…mmm…swoon.

  • riana

    amazing

  • MLynn

    I had a night just like this on New Years Eve. I was sleeping over at his house along with one of our friends and my brother. At around 2 o’clock in the morning my brother fell asleep. Twenty minutes later our friend fell asleep. He proceeded to walk over to the couch I was laying on and laid down on top of me. We’ve been friends for years but unfortunately I live hours away from him. Whenever I visit, something romantic happens. Before the other night, the most romantic thing we’d done was dance together. We were up until 4 in the morning. We talked a couple times. We laughed at the others snoring. But mostly we just stared at eachother. Neither of us found it the slightest bit weird. I pointed this out and we laughed. He kept telling me that he should go to bed so he’d hold me for a long while before I convinced him not to. We did this a couple times until he finally had to go. He kissed me and went to bed. I had to leave the next morning. I missed him the second I walked out the door.

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