With around two decades of mongering, I've dealt with all types of situations and done and experienced most everything imaginable in that time. That's why in that time I've learned a few life lessons I could not have learned otherwise if it hadn't happened to me. That's why I feel I need to make a comment regarding forming romantic relationships with SW since I've actually done that more than once in my time mongering. It's just a comment from experience, nothing more.
Where you meet someone doesn't matter. What does matter is if they've got an addiction and how serious that addiction is, and whether they are using you as a means toward an end at meeting their needs for that addiction. I got into the SW scene and dove in head first right at the start. I was dumb and foolish. I'm not proud of it looking back on it, and part of me wishes I could just go back and erase it all. I've told about my experiences before, to a degree. When I started mongering, I was a young, shy, inexperienced fool. Inexperienced at most everything. I was at a lonely place in my life, and needed to feel wanted at the time. The girl I found while mongering made me feel wanted, but I soon learned the hard way about the lengths people will go to when they're addicted.
When I first met her she was on dilaudids, but a few months later someone introduced her to crack and that became her drug of choice. With the dilaudids, a half a pill and she was fine for over 12 hours, and we used to spend all that time together and have fun and everything. During that time we got close, and that's when I met her family. When she got on crack she turned into a different person, basically the common crack persona you see in all crack addicts. Once she got on crack that's all she wanted, and she wasn't ever satisfied. She saw that I cared about her and used that as a way to get funds for her habit without having to sell herself. As long as she could do it, she did it, until I finally saw through it. I alienated myself from my family and my friends because of her. I got to where I had no money, even the very night I was paid. I sold things I regret to this day doing. I did this because in my mind I loved her and remembered how we used to be before the crack, and I was trying to do what I could to satisfy what she needed all the while trying to keep her from selling herself. I'm sure she knew how I felt, and maybe she felt that way, too, somewhere inside, but her addiction was more powerful than anything else. That addiction drove her to do what she had to for her fix. Because of the addiction, it was the crack that she loved. Her lips said what they had to to get me to supply her with the money to fund it. I didn't see that until I was almost at rock bottom.
For about a year there I lived the crack lifestyle while not actually doing it. I couldn't fund all her habit but I was still with her, and was around while she'd make her money for the habit. I was her boyfriend, and that's what the other girls and their guys knew me as. I wasn't actually doing crack, but I'm sure I breathed in enough second hand smoke to get high plenty of times between her doing it and all her friends doing it as well. I told her she never could sit back and enjoy her high because when she had it she was always trying to figure out where the next money was going to come from, who had more crack and talking general BS drama. I was wide open with her 24/7 for a while, hardly ever sleeping, running here and there, all the time day and night. When I finally stood back and saw where I'd put myself, I decided I had to make a clean break from it all immediately, and that's what I did. I got my heart hurt out of it, but it was a learning experience.
I got completely away from the SW scene for over 2 years because of it, and still now when I monger it's always at a long arms length. That's how come now when I see myself starting to get too interested or involved with a girl addicted to something, I take a step back. I've seen myself on a few occasions since then putting myself into situations that's similar, and I have to remind myself of the past. An addict will do whatever they have to to get their next fix, whether it be suck your dick or pretend they care about you. As long as the funds are flowing everything is fine. It's when the funds disappear you see what's really important. And like I said somewhere inside they actually might care - but as long as they're addicted, it's the addiction that will win out. Every situation is different, but most every SW story involves an active addiction to something that makes them similar.
That's just my personal insight from an experience 20 long years ago.
