liminalRapture
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In my ideal world it would be 'marriage' by that name. I certainly don't want to get to that point after a date, or three. I want to find someone that I can truly respect and admire. But yes, I want someone to grow old with. Someone to laugh with. Someone to be there when I cry and be there for them. I want to share a subscription to The New York Review of Books and argue over what dipshit is saying in his SOTU address. And work like hell together for a POTUS that isn't such a putz. Or maybe go to the pols together to cancel each other's primary vote. I want all the things that come with marriage, when it is good. And on top of that, I want to know that we truly connect on an erotic level. I've had men lecture me about this, the history and the dignity, offer to pay my mortgage (without meeting me--wtf?), harrangue until I found the 'block' button and then set up a new profile because I hadn't blocked that name yet. My answer always remains No. I want a chance at a "We." I know there are no guarantees in life, and I'm not going to settle with someone that just meets a few qualities but I don't deeply connect with. But if he has pledged his life to someone else, than he has committed to the future as much as if I demanded a ring on the third date. It won't work for me. If that makes me unsophisticated, well, I don't really care. "Sophistication" is not something to which I aspire. And if I did, I'd just spend more money on shoes. They are much more prestigious than being some guy's mistress. But if you are willing to pay her expenses, I expect you will find someone. Isn't that how it usually works? If you don't like American women, why don't you go to one of those sophisticated countries where lots of cute, young, submissive women would just love to be sexually submissive with no strings to an older 'doctor' from Yale. But, I will give you credit for one thing: You are open about your marital status here, and that is good. Very good. You are exactly what I'm NOT looking for, but I appreciate the fact that you are honest. At least here. If I were your wife, on the other hand....
< Message edited by liminalRapture -- 1/28/2008 7:27:24 PM >
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"Ring the bells that can still ring. Forget your perfect offering. There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen.
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