Like a really sweet guitar lick, sometimes you just keep a picture lying around for months and months, years and years, until you finally find her fated venue. Thanks for visiting. tgd

Quoting DancingDom:

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Or it could be a detached retina skewing the view of reality.

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Yes, the physical symptomology of this picture class is extensive, with research ongoing. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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It all started with Eve and that apple......

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I'm not sure what this means ... but ... Thanks for visiting. tgd

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I think a commitment all comes down to biochemistry. If the chemistry is right. The past shouldn't matter. As long as the past is the past. Can't have her blowing everybody on the street. At least that's my thoughts on it.

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I see from this and the next a key point was overlooked. If you have interest, keep reading. Either way ... Thanks for visiting. tgd

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Well GD, many years ago I had a sex worker as a girlfriend. I knew her through work, her's not mine, and we hit it off and so began a relationship. In her off time we did all sorts of normal things as a couple with open minds would and enjoyed life immensely. There was no judgement about what she did for work and I guess she loved that because we were together for quite a while.

So if marriage was contemplated, and I suppose I did contemplate it, and that marriage failed, then I would put if down to my flaws, not the constraints of marriage.

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With all due respect, you missed a key point of the fable. If she presented herself as a woman of such deep spiritual commitment that she cloistered herself in a nunnery for a number of years, that type of woman has a certain character, and a character vastly different from a sex worker. It's not a question of condemnation. It's a question of the alleged "me" expecting a spiritually deep and committed person and ending up instead with a more atomist/material role player. The disconnect from such a vast and critical mistake would not be the fault of marriage. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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I was once involved with a lawyer; having hit rock bottom from there all paths led up.

In truth it was more a case of nearly was actually, but I stuck with the thing I was with who then became wife #1 when I should have changed horses midstream. It was the singularly worst decision of my life... I turned away from something I innately knew to be fine and good out of a sense of obligation and for fear of being called an asshole or some other stupid thing. I have at least learnt from my mistakes... someone will be there to call you an asshole no matter what you do so do what you know to be right.

I really have no issue with lawyers, or sex workers come to that. Morality and/or the lack thereof has no relationship to occupation in my experience... white collar crime is booming while hookers are paying their taxes so yanno.... theres a lesson there somewhere.

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Yes, when you enter into the structure of a time honored spiritual convenant and the foundation between the two people is completely disconnected spiritually, it's not the fault of the convenant process that the relationship did not last. A plumber can't wire a fuse box. As for the reality of sex workers effecting their morality, from this and the two posts above I have once again unknowingly built a large copper tower in the midst of a lightning storm. TzzzZzzit!!! Thanks for visiting. tgd

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Bing! You win a bag of Chocolate Raspberry Milanos. And a half gallon of ice cold milk. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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Yes. I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not. With this particular post, my antenna are being jammed by a demon. But, as I wrote somewhere else recently, your proposed answer and last sentence goosestep there way wonderfully with the new feminism: celebratory equality for me, invalidation for you. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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t is never your fault no matter which side you are on

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Sure, because fraud, abuse and murder all reflect equal culpability on both parties. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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When a self-aware female diligently plays to the expectation until after the ceremony, the expectation and the "person" are one and the same. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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We agree. It is not the fault of marriage when one of the parties enters into the convenant detached from the reality before them. Thanks for visiting (and returning). tgd