Guilt is one of those strange words that comes with faint meanderings into the Victorian Age, The Scarlet Letter and other haunting bits of bologna. Yesterday I became aware that there are 3 states here in the US that do not allow pregnant women to file for a divorce. Apparently, she would be found guilty of .... something. Who is to say whether it was a pleasure or not!?!? No mention if said husband can file for a divorce, or whether he enjoyed his guilty pleasure??? But I digress...
I have a very good friend of many years who I greatly respect and appreciate. This said, I would never tell her that I often take naps. She thinks of naps as a falling down of one's rectitude and better self. I on the other hand have found naps to be wonderfully restorative. I take them as needed, so to speak. So, I guess you could say naps are one of my guilty pleasures. 🤗
That be me who mentioned indulging in the "guilty pleasure" of watching the Harry Bosch series while my husband was elsewhere occupied. I never really thought about the phrase until now, after reading your post. So, yeah, as a former English major, I've tended to describe such reading, viewing, and listening as "guilty" pleasures, but ... I'm in such good company :-)
Gosh, I remember how some of my classmates got around that by "analyzing" shows like 30-Something, Seinfeld, and Friends for their term papers (iinsert eye roll emoji).
I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures anymore. I'm too old to care what other people think, and that feels good.
I have never really subscribed to the idea of guilty pleasures but during the pandemic, I found myself really looking forward to listening to the audiobook versions of the original Bridgerton books on my daily walks.A totally different style of novel, which had never tempted me before (and one I certainly couldn't listen to at home without earphones!) Once the series was over, the compulsion vanished. 😀
Guilt is one of those strange words that comes with faint meanderings into the Victorian Age, The Scarlet Letter and other haunting bits of bologna. Yesterday I became aware that there are 3 states here in the US that do not allow pregnant women to file for a divorce. Apparently, she would be found guilty of .... something. Who is to say whether it was a pleasure or not!?!? No mention if said husband can file for a divorce, or whether he enjoyed his guilty pleasure??? But I digress...
I have a very good friend of many years who I greatly respect and appreciate. This said, I would never tell her that I often take naps. She thinks of naps as a falling down of one's rectitude and better self. I on the other hand have found naps to be wonderfully restorative. I take them as needed, so to speak. So, I guess you could say naps are one of my guilty pleasures. 🤗
I love naps! Sometimes you just need to put your head down and take a break. No guilt at all.
Hear! Hear! 😀🌈
That be me who mentioned indulging in the "guilty pleasure" of watching the Harry Bosch series while my husband was elsewhere occupied. I never really thought about the phrase until now, after reading your post. So, yeah, as a former English major, I've tended to describe such reading, viewing, and listening as "guilty" pleasures, but ... I'm in such good company :-)
Gosh, I remember how some of my classmates got around that by "analyzing" shows like 30-Something, Seinfeld, and Friends for their term papers (iinsert eye roll emoji).
I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures anymore. I'm too old to care what other people think, and that feels good.
Hooray for being to old to care what other people think!
That's one upside of getting older ;-)
Yeah…we love Selling Sunset… Real Estate Porn. Yup.
I love to Real Estate Porn, but mine usually takes the form of browsing online listings. But you do you, free of guilt.
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I have never really subscribed to the idea of guilty pleasures but during the pandemic, I found myself really looking forward to listening to the audiobook versions of the original Bridgerton books on my daily walks.A totally different style of novel, which had never tempted me before (and one I certainly couldn't listen to at home without earphones!) Once the series was over, the compulsion vanished. 😀
I haven't listened to the Bridgerton books, but I enjoyed the TV series. I'll have to add them to my queue.
Rather raunchy - at least, too much to listen to with a teenager around😉
Raunchy works for me 😉. And my baby is 32 and long past being shocked by his mom.