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    Anonymous
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    Dear DP:

    I understand your strong conviction regarding monogamy. I didn’t doubt that conviction before. What I have been trying to do is figure out your motivation regarding entertaining the … sort of need to have an experience with another woman, to match your girlfriend’s experience during the breakup. I am trying to figure out why you feel inadequate not having such experience. I haven’t figure it out.

    anita

    #174597
    DP
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    Anita,

    This is where I’m at a loss of words as well. The two strongest things i feel are that

    a) I maybe would’ve found it easier to accept had I’d been with someone else(Just a hunch and most probably incorrect)

    b) I sometimes get this feeling of doubt and worry if I’m missing out on something in life and what if this feeling of doubt i get impacts our relationship in a bigger way later

    #174609
    Anonymous
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    Dear DP:

    Here is a possibility, let me know what you think of it: you live with your mother while your father disappears for long periods of time, having affairs with other women. Your mother is suffering. You feel great empathy for her. Being a good boy is very important to you: unlike your father, you are going to be there for your mother, you will help her.

    But being exposed to her suffering, you naturally long for a happy-go-lucky living, being free of suffering. And so, secretly you long to live like your father, to be out and about, have a happier life, elsewhere.

    I wonder if you felt angry at your mother, at times, for… trapping you in her misery…?

    anita

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