Look Blake, I get what you are trying to do, you are trying to justify behavior that someone you have grown to care about is doing to make it justifiable and to fit into that box in your head that explains why such a good guy would stray.
Look, I get it. I do. I have been on the end that I have tried to justify it, but instead of stroking your ego or soul, I will do you a favor and tell you the straight out truth and try to save you a lot of heartache and confusion.
You hear what you want to hear because it makes it easier for you to do what you do and eases your guilt, but the truth is, you don't really know the truth, and you NEVER will.
Unless you have been at his wifes bedside, stroking her hand, watching her slowly pull away for physical or emotional reasons, you don't actually know the truth except the truth he is feeding you. Get over it. You are not his reason for life. You are not the first person that he has reached out to for compassion in 25 years, and you most certainly won't be the last. You will be the flavor of the month while he allows you to stroke his ego and make him feel better about what ever it is that he is going through, but the fact is, as harsh as it may seem, you are simply a diversion for the time being, and very likely it will never amount to more than that.
No one on the previous thread that you are referring to was passing judgement, but more so stating opinions that are theirs and that more than likely, they have managed to form after being around this so called "hobby" for more than a blink.
You seem to be VERY sensitive about the opinions that are formed about mongers, and seemed to have lumped them all into the same catagory as your "friend" and given an example of why this profession can be so "great" for women.
Now let me give you an example or two. I am very good friends with a provider. She is like the rock star of providers, and for that fact, a rock star of women flat out. She races cars. Rescues animals from shelters. Drives a Harley, rides horses, and the bitch flies planes. And to top if off she rehabs houses and knows the market better than most on Wall Street that I know, and guess what? She's a provider and a Mom. She has her masters degree and she is a volunteer firefighter. Yea, like I said, this is a broad that is a rock star of providers much less women.
Guess what? She and her kids were homeless when she left her scumbag husband and pennyless. Right after she left the piece of shit she found out she herself had cancer. Never once did she use any of the things that were going on in her life as an excuse to short change anyone, including herself. She kept plowing forth and grabbing life the balls and living it.
Even when she was homeless she never clued anyone in to what she was going through. She stood up and said this is going on, and these are the choices that I am making and went for it.
Your friend that you are so busy defending is such a wuss that he is passively aggresively using you to battle his battle and to justify his own actions and you seem to be, excuse me if I am wrong, but see him as some sort of savior for saving you in a time that you are down and out, and quite franky dear, the fact is, he didn't save you, YOU did, just like my friend did. YOU made the choice to try to help yourself, he just happened to be the one that read you right in that you were putting off vibes that you wanted "saved" but the reality is, you, just like my friend, saved yourself. He might have given you the cash, but it was through your own actions and choices that you were able to get out there and take care of what you needed to he just was the one at the time that decided to pay you for your companionship and if wasn't him, it would have been someone else.
Do NOT shortchange yourself and for all means, do not give him credit that he may or may not deserve, part of the vows are "through better or for worse" not for better and if you get sick I will physically stay by your side but emotionally give someone else the tenderness that you need.
Listen very carefully when I tell you this. Everyone has a story. Everyone. No one is without some sort of pain and suffering, it is what we chose to do during that time that defines us. And please know this. Everyone is entitled to a break down every once in a while. I know that my friend that to me is the rock star of all women had one, but she didn't allow it to define her, nor has she allowed what she chooses to do now to define her. The lady that I am telling you about, she does it all, when she had cancer she made the chose to not let what went on her life to define her, but instead chose to let what had transpired in her life let her make new choices, and when she isn't sucking a mean ass cock, or flying planes or riding harleys or being a Mom, she works as a firefighter in her township as a volunteer.... why? She figured if she could save her own life she could save others lives..... and not use anything that happened in her life as an excuse for her behavior, but rather use it as a reason to move forward. Seems to me like both you and your friend could use some of the same reasoning and stop worrying about about what others say on a fuck board and start wondering why the hell you are so worried about defending one monger and why you seem to not be able to recoginze that he didn't save you, YOU did. He is a grown ass man, he doesn't need you to defend him and if he does, you need to find a better battle to fight because any man who can't fight his own battle is no man, but simply a shell of a human being that will always find reasons to justify his choices but never with the spine to stand up for them.
Posted By: blakeastornyc
I have been on TER a very short time and first let me say there are very lovely gentlemen here on this site. I have had the great fortune of meeting some and just speaking with many others. As a woman very new to this new world I have been welcomed with open arms, and I begin to discover just how beautiful I am both inside and out. I have begin to love myself more and more each day and to those men and women also here on this site thank you!!!
I now want to say there are a lot of friggen winers and all they do is complain talk negative about this world invite reporters into M&G and degrade women. So why the hell are they even on here? I mean call a spade a spade however don't make assumptions about men or women you don't know, or further more lay in their bed then call them names after you smiled from ear to ear with satisfaction. There are women who decide they don't want to be intimate with the husband any more so he waits thinking it might change and seven years later it hasn't he has grown 20years older physically and mentally and knows that he loves his wife or better yet he would loose everything he worked his ass off to make and then where? He would be in a world were he hasn't been around a woman in 25 years so he seeks a friendship to help him regain an inner strength well you take that woman who has been around jerks who degrade woman, for whatever happened in her child hood and they help each other see their worth.
So before anyone begins to abuse another without knowing the facts all I have to say is Karma is a bitch! We are all in this world together we have no right to judge or cast assumptions on each other until we walk a day in their shoes and even then help not hurt. Cause the statement is true treat others how you want to be treated cause karma is a bitch I know somebody who was an ass and he was struck down at a young age by a heart attack.
May we enjoy our lives as we see fit for us,