HildaCornersWinter? You call *that* winter?Gold WomenPosts: 3,377
We've had our share of perversions crop up, and some in fairly horrible ways. [Any old timers remember the demise of x123x or whatever his name was?] A site like this will draw them in, if only so they can get the additional "thrill" of pulling a fast one on us poor, innocent, vanilla monogamists. <heavy sarcasm>
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
I've been working with the public for a long time. Ain't nothing new under the sun, and everyone has something they're dealing with that makes them ashamed, and feeling like they're the only ones. They're not.
It's the same with bodies, honestly. Everybody has some features they don't like, and even extreme issues aren't that extreme to someone who has seen a thousand people naked. It's all the same in many ways, and everyone has the same needs.
We actually have some friends who opened their marriage and are not at all secretive about it. He has some health problems, has ED, they haven't had intercourse in almost ten years. She's free to sleep with others. Technically he is too, but he really can't.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, but I am saying it happens.
I remember overhearing a group of younger women (early to mid-20s it looked like) talking about open marriage awhile back. According to one of them, might as well have the screwing around out in the open rather than one or both spouses sneaking around. People are gonna go outside the marriage anyway, no-one's really faithful these days, she said, so might as well be up-front about it.
At that point I could not stay silent any more. I turned around and said, if monogamy and fidelity can no longer be expected from marriage, why marry in the first place? The massive verbal hamsterbation I got in reply from her and her friends was enough to make me smile.
Husband of over a decade, stepfather of 3, creator of the superhero webcomic The Vanguard.
Boy, do I need to avoid reading Chateau Heartiste today.
100% excellent idea. Bitter, bitter crap there.
And for me, its a good compass to make sure I'm not drifting into asshole alpha. (It can happen.) I never read the comments. Most of the time, just the "article" titles. I bet I only read about 10% of what's actually posted.
What makes me scratch my head is, at my most passive, beta-ist wuss (when I wasn't being Godzilla asshole aggressive in the whole P/A 1-2 combo I had going), under no circumstances would I tolerate this crap. Um, No. Bye.
But is it fair to say everyone who ever passed through MMSL could say the same? I remember a member who let his wife have an affair when he was going through ED or something. Ultimately I think he left because his marriage fell apart.
"Ruby" is of a man who was paralyzed in combat and his wife starts running around on him. Big difference from someone who runs around on their spouse "just because".
I never countenance running around but look at the medical first then everything else afterward.
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Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
It's the same with bodies, honestly. Everybody has some features they don't like, and even extreme issues aren't that extreme to someone who has seen a thousand people naked. It's all the same in many ways, and everyone has the same needs.
It's all a matter of perspective. The weirder your existence, the more that 'strange' begins to look 'normal'.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, but I am saying it happens.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/bottom-of-the-barrel-cuckold-fetishist-or-spinster-hoax/
At that point I could not stay silent any more. I turned around and said, if monogamy and fidelity can no longer be expected from marriage, why marry in the first place? The massive verbal hamsterbation I got in reply from her and her friends was enough to make me smile.
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Do the right thing, whether anyone is watching or not.
Be married, until you are not.
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To me, the comments section shows who it's really written for.
I never countenance running around but look at the medical first then everything else afterward.