The Allowed List

I think everybody should have an Allowed List.
Seriously, they are perfectly healthy and a great distraction from the rubbishness that real life sometimes throws at you. It's the fantasy that makes them, the idea of being allowed something you can never and will never have.
We're all human beings and, while most of us are engineered to fall in love with one person at a time, we're also wired to appreciate many others on a sexual level.
I challenge anybody in this world to tell me that, no matter how much in love with their boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband or whatever, they have not enjoyed looking at others and felt that exciting flutter of lust in their stomach.
Anybody in a relationship who claims they never look and fancy another is, quite simply, lying.
It's absolutely fine to find other men (in my case, obviously) attractive because that's all it is. An attraction to the physical appearance. It's not love, never will be, it's just a natural, chemical reaction in your brain that can't be controlled.
Window shopping is fine, so long as you never actually try things on for size. Looking is allowed, experiencing is clearly not. Appreciation is NOT temptation, there is a big difference.
I love Da Boy with all my heart and, if there ever came a day when I felt anything close to actually wanting to be with another man, I would end things. So would he, should he ever find himself tempted by another woman.
I have never cheated and, as far as I know, neither has he. And this knowledge and trust hasn't come from us telling each other since we've been together, it came from discussions we had when we were just very close friends, when there was no reason at all for either of us to lie.
Any person who actually feels genuinely tempted to cheat on the one they supposedly love quite clearly doesn't love that person. Appreciation is fine, having a joke about it is great fun but if there is even the smallest part of you that actually could see yourself wanting to be with someone other than the one who supposedly has your heart, then I honestly believe you should leave.
Woah, right, that got a bit deep and meaningful there, not something I had planned for this post! So let's get back to the light-heartedness I originally planned.
There are a few simple rules Da Boy and me follow with our Allowed Lists.
1) Only famous people we have a million to one chance of ever meeting can feature.
2) There is a maximum of eight entries allowed at any one time (as I have mentioned before, this was a new rule Da Boy introduced when my list got too long).
3) Once the maximum number is reached, a one-in, one-out rule comes into play.
And 4) Obviously you can never actually have that fantasized one night with them!
Because that's the whole point, as I said before. They're a fantasy and an extremely fun one at that.
So, who's on my list then?
Here we go. The top three are in order of preference but the others are fairly changeable in where they appear.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)
Jared Padalecki (Supernatural)
Ryan Adams
David Tennant
Synyster Gates (Avenged Sevenfold)
Orlando Bloom
Daniel Radcliffe (but only now he's of legal age!)
My number one has remained in the top spot for the past five years or so, I just adore Billie Joe. We're going to see Green Day in October and I actually can't wait! Da Boy has already offered to take a bucket with us for the puddle of drool he is wholly expecting me to turn into on the night.
The two boys from Supernatural are fairly recent entries but I can see them sticking around for a good while. It took someone pretty special to push Ryan Adams and Synyster Gates down the list, I tell you!
So there it is. The boys I fancy the pants off.
But I tell you one thing. I wouldn't swap my incredible fiance for any of them, not in a million years.