I find very few topics taboo or downers unless people :deadhorse: But that may be because I talk about all that same stuff with my "everyday" friends and the friends I've made at TTR I feel are just as great as friends so talk about what you will! Rome and I complain about our kids too much - I try to stop us but know we are guilty of it!
I think the problem lies more with listening to other people talk about their kids. At home you have your regular friends and you all go through the same triumph and tragedy cycle and your kids, and theirs are a major focus of your life. At TTR, it's an alternate reality. You're not mom and dad, you're lovers. And you expect your friends to be too. If you start talking about your kids it's contagious and next thing you know everybody is doing it. That erodes the fantasy that makes TTR fun. While at TTR you get to go back to just being the lusty/lovey couple that you started out as and that's the magic of the place.
Yeah I don't think we did that sort of talking about kids: complained about them; said how they will likely be TTR goers when they are older because they are shaping up to be nutty and wild like us; and that sort of thing. And that wasn't for a few days - the first couple of days, we pretended they didn't exist - which I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do so that was a bonus!
Unacceptable conversation starters: "These cougars just make me sick!" "I can't believe people over 40 come here." "She needs to put more clothes on." Good conversation starters: "Would you like to hear my older woman fantasy?" "Really? You are over 35?" "Isn't it a little warm to have that much on?"
What's hard is coming back to the real world and remembering you can't just say things like "Your boobs are amazing!" when you're trying to make small talk at the dentist....
One of the best TTR conversation starters is, "Hey, in a few minutes we're going to go over to the bar and do some wet pussies, want to come with?" Never seems to fail me.
We talked about kids often while at TTR "This is the position we used to make kids" "Now they look like they did before I had kids" "Stick her in the baby maker" and my personal, all time favorite "yes, but you aren't going to make a baby sticking it in that one"