[quote author=LaffingRain link=1191016668/45#46 date=1191935502]Hi Vajra, sorry I'm late for dinner..me kids arrived in town and I don't know how lucky a person can be to have such children..they put in some landscaping for me.
I am glad you have a good relationship with your kids
soo anyhoo, basically I think perhaps all of life is like an experiment and that may include, well, it must include all facets of life, sex included. just rambling, but for example heres a list of friends I've known and their respective dramas:
Dotty: married to a man many years, bore a child, he decides to become a woman, grows breasts, on his way to remove his manhood, he meets another woman and decides he wants to remain as a man. the high point of this drama was when his breasts grew larger than Dotty's, he declared he was the "better woman." arrggg. Dotty took the news pretty well, but she was a stalwart spirit who hid her pain well.
what an idiot. If he thinks being a "good woman"is measured by how large your breasts are.. well, what can I say? Glad he realised he was just confused and stopped when he did, anyway. i know a 40-year-old who has decided he is transsexual, even though he is a married man with two kids, but I think s/he is a much more deserving case, even though it's tough on the family. Sometimes you get people who can function as a straight family man, but never feel quite right about theri gender inside and take a long time to decided what they want to do. I have even heard of couples staying together after the man changed sex, which is surprising. I also wonder about the legality now ! I am in the UK and transsexuals can now change birth certificates - but if they do, then what happens? We have legal 'civil partnerships" for gay people, but no gay "marriage"yet. Or maybe it's like the Catholic church where, I understand, if you were a married protestant pastor and become a Catholic priest, they let you stay married (must make the long-term Catholic ones annoyed).
Sylvia: married and divorced 9 times, emasculates men without realizing it consciously, she is now single with 3 dogs and 19 cats.
9 times!!!! If life is trying to teach her something, she must be a bit of a slow learner!
Karen: seduced at 14 by gym teacher, she remains a virgin the rest of her life and never experiments with the opposite sex. has a relationship.
? never experiments, but has a relationship? with a woman? or do you mean, she WAS like that but now has a relsationship? Sorry about the gym teacher - likely to have been damaging for her, and a terrible abuse of trust, a reponsible position, and normal human decency by him
Gary: a slightly build gay fellow used to come to work at least once a week with a busted lip or black eye given by his lover, he acted like he had a trophy with each scar.
..guess it takes all sorts... I wish people would not stay with abusive partners.. I sometimes find it quite hard to see why they do
I worked for a porn magazine as typesetter awhile...typing wanted ads...75% of the ads I typed were guys listing the measurement of their organ, up to 9"...the other language I won't list here so not to cause shock but it was graphic and sick. business was booming. I lasted a year there; spirit put me there to observe humanity.
maybe to toughen me up to what goes on.
I didn;t expect you to have done something like that! Well, like you say, i guess it's all experience. Sorry it left you with a pretty poor opinion of (those) men. Don't suppose you find the finest , most well-balanced, examples of the male sex writing in to porn mags though..
While my sister lay dying of cancer, her husband of 20 some years was rounding up a new partner and planning to move her into the house when sis died. she did, and he did. It didn't work out
, the new arrangement, imagine that?
what a bastard. How awful for you and your sister
He goes looking for my sis in the afterlife areas, finds her, begs forgiveness, she declines, shes got a new beau over there
she'll forgive someday, but not just yet...its really hard to die all alone while your husband is playing around.
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wow, humans have got the drama going on! my sis was never able to enjoy sex because her father molested her. the point is, even after death, relationships continue the same as they did on Earth with folks still trying to learn and grow and get over hurts and find out what real love is.
Yeah, I guess anyone who thinks we suddently all become really wise and sorted out when we die has another think coming. I am sorry for the sadness your sister went though and am glad things seem better where she is
Gina: is neither of black race nor white, is both, looks white. she hangs in black bars and nearly gets raped while shes trying to find her rightful place. finally finds a white man 20 years older than her who is emotionally her age and its a perfect match, last I heard.
Good
I did find in my travels a couple who are happy! was looking to find more like them and I know they are out there. he's a farmer, he names each horse and animal he has. he likes to stay and wants to die on his farm in Wisconsin. his wife of many years is a world traveler, doing this several times a year.
Glad to hear it! I am sure I know some happy couples too - I hope so, anyway! Hard to know exactly what goes on behind the masks people sometimes wear, and closed doors. It would be sad if we were left thinking it was impossible to find real love. I guess it needs many, not-so-common ingredients like being quite like-minded and understanding each other well and enjoying each other's company; communicating properly; having at least some physical attraction; not projecting too many expectations on the other person, or wanting them to be something they are not; not being too needy or jealous; appreciating the best in them and being able to forgive the faults etc
well, this is just a few examples of human drama, relationships. the body though, is just a tool for gathering experiences and humanity is moving along towards the fuller expression of our afterlife where PUL just is, and is not something to attain nor express, but just is, existent in the atmosphere and is the foundation we walk on, and shines on all the same, in the levels of completion.
I say let the body serve you, but don't let it's needs have authority over our lives and our dramas and our well being.
well, gee, on a high note, at least we have a body to express in!
Good advice, LR, and nice that you ended on a positive note
whether we find a perfect relationship or not the main thing is not to let life's shitty aspects crush our spirit, and still be able to love
Orlando