Quote Originally Posted by Basil22 View Post
Thanks @PervySage. But it was a long and tortuous road to get to this point! Also I simplify things a little here to avoid writing essays each time. But yes, things could’ve ended up much differently (worse?) I suppose.

Even after all of my experience, I still find it difficult not to get attached to MLs (one in particular). I think I saw in one of the threads someone saying they have a 5-session rule. I think that’s a good policy, also not to exchange contact details.
After a few disasters I have a similar rule. If I see a girl more than 3 times she has to be pretty damned special, and that came about as a result of going down in flames 3 times... I am a slow learner...
I get what you're saying about not changing a thing despite all the anxiety etc suffered as a result, I guess that is the real meaning of life, to experience all the range of emotions and so on. Of my 3 dalliances I am still in regular contact with one girl, who even 10 years later I wonder if she is the one who got away. Could all of this have been avoided if I just kept things professional? Absolutely, but I often remind myself of a line from an old poem "Oh all sad words, from tongue or pen, the saddest by far, "it might have been..."".
There is a lat of cynicism towards relationships with working girls, and 99.9% of it is probably warranted, but when you find maybe that 0.1%...