Americans in Bed Page #6

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You're dating.

You're dating, yeah,

like dating in the

commonly understood way.

In, like,

the western concept.

Yeah, you know, go out,

hold hands, talk, you

know, like, just stare

into each other's eyes.

Ha ha ha!

When we spent our

first night together--

Wait, wait, hold on

a second. Do you feel

comfortable right now?

I do.

Really?

I'm saying I feel

comfortable in what

I'm about to say, yes.

OK.

OK, so when we spent

our first night

together,

you know, it felt right.

It felt like all

of that waiting,

all of that time

we had spent holding

back and not engaging

in the kind of actions

that we would've

probably physically

wanted to engage in,

it just made it all

worth it and it made it

all make sense.

It's special, you know,

'cause it's something

you've never experienced

before.

We were both just...

It was lovely, yeah.

She was mine

in the full sense and...

Mm-hmm.

And I was hers

in the full sense,

so that was--

Yeah, it was really,

really lovely.

It was really special.

It's no longer

Mohamed and it's

no longer Yasmin.

It's Mohamed and Yasmin,

or Yasmin and Mohamed,

so in that--

It's not "I am me,"

it's "we."

Ha ha ha!

JOE:
This is the first

relationship that I've

ever been in

where I don't talk

about my sex life

to my friends.

I talked--in the old days

before marriage, whatever,

"You f*** any?"

"I f***ed her, man.

I did what I had to do."

"Hey, what'd you guys

do last night?"

"None of your

business, bro."

Yeah.

"Man, this is

a classy lady."

I'm not gonna tell you

what I did with her,

nothing like that.

Not gonna need to know that,

you don't need to know that.

I've done it

with everyone else.

But you got older,

too, Joe.

I think, when you get

older, you stop telling

your war stories, no?

Yeah, plus the woman

I spend all the time

with now,

do I want my friends

looking at her about how

I tied her up and did her?

I don't want those guys

to know that sh*t,

you know...

[Both laugh]

So that's very private

to us when it comes

to that,

and it's not

the biggest issue

in our relationship.

In my 30s, I was, like,

a lot more wild.

Now I'm like,

"All right,"

you know, like it's--

"All right,

just do it already."

It's more mature,

it's not--

"Just do it."

I don't think

it's the most

important thing.

I don't think it's

the thing that keeps--

"Oh, if we don't have,

you know, sex today

we're gonna break up,"

or "You were with

someone else."

Some people get

into that mindset,

that "Oh, if we didn't

have sex this week,

maybe he's looking for

someone else, maybe he's

with someone else."

Like, I don't think

we go there.

I think we both know

that we're busy,

the privacy was an issue

at the time or whatever.

Whatever happened that

we didn't, you know,

have sex that week

or that day or whatever,

that it was a kind of

a mutual, like, "Ah,

forget it this week."

Ha ha ha!

You know, we're OK.

We're fine.

LEON:
If I didn't think

that I have a future

with Blanca, she wouldn't

be my girlfriend,

and I wouldn't be

here right now.

If you turned out to be

really happy with me

the way I am...

[Giggles]

And...

I mean, that's really

all that I want.

I want to know

that the person I love

loves me back the way

I am and is willing

to work with me

to find ways to keep us

both happy.

That's what I want.

That's my fantasy.

Hmm.

I've examined

Leon's heart...

with my eyes closed,

and he doesn't do

certain things

to hurt me.

He does certain things

'cause he's being true

to himself,

and it's up to me

as a grown human being

with a lot of life

experience to decide

is this space where

I'm going to be in,

or is this a space

where I'm gonna get out?

No one is forcing me

to do this,

and I'm doing it

for love.

Hmm?

Hmm.

Yeah.

Yes.

And she's fun to kiss.

Yeah, and she's cuddly.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And she's hot.

Ha ha!

Stop it.

Sorry.

But you are.

Stop it.

It's true.

Mine.

I'm fired. Ha ha!

Guy and I,

our sex life is nil,

to be real honest

with you.

We don't have sex.

It's not available,

so you move on

with your life.

That's just the way

I've taken...

just look at that,

and we just go from there.

And I would never,

ever think of cheating

on him, ever,

and I don't think he'd

ever cheat on me.

Well, he can't,

so he wouldn't.

Ha ha ha!

I see.

Well, you could look

at it that way.

Thanks. Great.

Yeah. Ha ha!

Now I know

I could get away

with it now.

Ha ha ha ha!

Answered

that question

pretty easily.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

OK.

We're talking about me.

You know, I take

certain prescriptions

that sort of take you

out of the picture

in that regard,

so it's do I want

to be sick or not?

[Sighs]

I have a vibrator.

You know, if I really have

an urge and I need him,

there's other ways

to have sex besides,

you know...

What do you call it?

Anyhoo, well...

Intercourse. There's

other ways to have sex.

You're the one

talking, honey.

Ha ha ha ha!

I'm totally embarrassing him.

If you think I'm

gonna bail you out,

you're crazy.

Ha ha ha ha!

So, right.

[Distant siren]

JULIE:
In April,

Randy went on a shoot

for 3 1/2 months, OK?

Fought away directing

commercials, and I--

and when we met, I was

touring all the time,

and we kind of came

to this, like,

decision together

that I was gonna make

some changes in my career

so that I could be here,

so we could, like, get

married and have a kid

and have a life and be--

you know, that's

what we both decided

we wanted.

And Randy had this

opportunity to go away,

and it was really hard

for me to feel--

be supportive of that

when I felt like

suddenly he was saying,

"This is what I'm doing.

I'm going away and I

might go away again

"and again and again

and again, and that's

just what's happening,

so deal with it,"

and I felt like it was

really insensitive and--

I did not--first of all,

I didn't say that.

That's my experience of it,

is that you were,

like--well, how much is

too much to go away?

You're not asking

this question right.

No, I'm asking you now.

Like, what do you think

is an appropriate amount

of time of the year for

you to be away that's,

like, fair to us?

This is why I went

to see the therapist,

because I can't--

like, that conversation,

like, I can't--it's

very stressful for me

and it's like I feel

like I can't make

any headway on it.

And so we went to see

someone who was basically

trying to help us, like,

just discuss

this issue, but...

you're not really

willing to discuss

this issue,

so it's just

kind of on hold.

The long and short

of it is that, like,

our work lives are

in different areas and,

like, that's something

that, you know, we just

have to deal with.

It's like I've been

working for a long time

to try to get my career

to a place where I can do

these kind of things,

and the idea of...having

to answer those questions

that I can't answer

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