Stephann
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Joined: 12/27/2006 From: Portland, OR Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: defiantbadgirl Did you even read my response to your comment? I have my shit together alot more than alot of people. How do you think a counselor would respond if I walked into his office and said I was psycho because ----- I have no interest in a relationship with a free loading bum with no job and no car. ----- I refuse to have casual sex with multiple partners due to morals and health risks Counselors help people who are sex addicts at risk to their own health and people who have a pattern of dating freeloaders. Why would they think I needed help because I avoid such self distructive behavior? Coughs. I don't own a car. I don't ask for rides. I use a bicycle and the bus. I'm also employed. It's cool you expect a man to own a car; but those who don't aren't necessarily 'bums.' Car ownership, at this point in my life, isn't a high ranking priority. As for your issues, again, it's way cool that you have a laundry list of things you expect from a man. Yet, have you considered that perhaps instead of focusing on who he is, you're focusing on what he represents? That your own fear of sex translates to him, as a fear of intimacy? Instead of a relationship built on trust, you build the relationship on 'earning' trust. You make sex into a prize for him to achieve, rather than a mutually rewarding and enjoyable experience for you both. Years ago, I dated a virgin for over a year. I didn't expect sex from her, exactly, she was very clear that she wanted to wait until marriage. As she matured, her attitudes towards sex changed, and eventually I was her first. I didn't love her more, or less, because we had sex; it was clear that the relationship didn't change; she did. This is the sort of intimacy I highly recommend working towards: a relationship that you aren't afraid he'll leave after sex, because you knowhim so well that the possibility that he might abandon you never enters your mind. That takes trust. Until you can learn to trust, and learn to choose partners worth trusting, you're likely to repeat this pattern several more times in your life. Good luck, Stephan
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