If you do find a girl that you find smart or interesting
[QUOTE=LightBringer;3500614]And I don't really give a shit what you wish someone would have told you 20 years ago. I didn't ask for your basic advice. I've heard all that before. Don't fall for the act, everybody wants to be "that guy", pay them to leave not to stay, etc. Etc. Been there, done that, moved on already. Everyone plays the game a little differently. Don't assume that because I look for something different than you that it means that I do so out of ignorance.
If I have put my hand too close to the flame once before, it doesn't mean I am going to be scared of fire from now on. Quite the opposite in fact.
Thanks to the rest of you who gave me some good ideas, in the threads and by PM.[/QUOTE]I hope you let us know. If not all of us, just me will be fine. I thought your original post was interesting and gave me a something to think about. Unfortunately, I could not come up with someone to suggest to you.
One year still belongs to you, 13.
That's fine, but where exactly did I say that I was looking for romance? Where did I say I was looking for a long lasting committed relationship?
To be clear, I am sympathetic to the notion that we are all human beings, on both sides, irrational and unpredictable, and anything could happen. However unlikely you might think it is, however unwise you think it might be to go looking for, stranger things have happened. If you want to give advice to people that it is not advisable to go looking for romance, go ahead. I think that is good advice. But don't assume that you are smart enough to know what every single person is capable of or what their motivation is.
As for why I seek absolution among fallen angels, I have my reasons. I have a karmic debt to repay. I will find at least one person who is looking to escape. I will extend my hand and they will either understand what this gesture means, or they will not. If they take my hand, I will pull them out whatever prison they find themselves locked in. Yeah, I probably have to let myself fall in love with them to put in that type of effort. And yeah, I already know how that will ultimately end. But I am not looking for something to possess. I am looking for something to set free. What do I get out of it? It wouldn't make sense to anyone else, because only I determine the purpose of my actions for myself. We all have our reasons for what we do. I write my own story, and I choose to live it. How much money would you be willing to part with for the sake of being the person you really want to be? $150? For one hour? Add a few zeroes to that number, and a lifetime to that timespan, and that is what I am actually putting into play with every encounter. I have a secret contempt for the money, and a secret respect for the person. That sound crazy to you? Yeah, I understand. But tell me who among you is really normal?
No, I don't think I am a better person than you. It's likely that I just have to work that much harder to find the simple happiness and self-satisfaction that you take for granted. But it's okay. It all evens out in the end.
So yeah I understand your argument. I think you cling too dearly to absolutes in order to find security in pedestrian street wisdom. But in any case, you are arguing with someone, but that someone is not me.
13 - I kept my word. I kept the faith. If you need a light, I will bring one.
[QUOTE=ClintonPortis;3503458]No you're putting up a strawman argument. It's not "ignorance" to want something different than what other mongers want. That's not what we're saying.
It's wilful avoidance to face facts. Looking for love by being a john to a hooker is a one way ticket to broken hearts, broken dreams, and a broken bank account.
Yes, many independent hookers who aren't drug addled or beholden to a pimp actually do have a life outside the sex trade. For sure. They have private lives too. And THAT is where these girls will go to find love, whether they have day jobs like Leia or go to school or have friends and family to hang with socially. You think their idea of romantic love involves a john that trolls the internet looking to pay girls for sex? The only kind of romance you will ever enjoy with a hooker as a john is the kind where you are their bank. That is it.
There is not a single person on this forum that has managed to sustain a long lasting, 15-20 year, committed relationship or marriage based on "love" with a hooker. Not a single one. Every story ends with the monger learning a big lesson, or a monger not able to handle the hooker's job, or on rare occasions the hooker becoming too clingy, or whatever. This just does not exist.
Go to a dating site and you will have a 5 percent, 10 percent, or 20 percent chance of finding the woman you end up settling down with and growing old with. Take the AMP route as a john and your success rate will be 0. 0 percent.[/QUOTE]