On 2017-10-28 21:34:26 Master Dick said:
Most of us here (both punters and WG )live double life. Some are married or in relationships.Been with women in this industry and outside and have witnessed how they would lie to their partners in my presence,We men also do the same..which left me wondering; is getting committed really worth it?Do faithfulness and honesty still exist?
I'm a bachelor and such things really discourage me. They really make me insecure.
I can largely relate to what you saying, it's the main reason I punt.
It's going to largely depend on if you are happy to be single.
I have many hobbies and always getting up to mischief with friends or generally just enjoying life. To now get permission or upset someone if I don't... that feels like work to me.
A single friend and I decided about a month back. Screw it, lets go fishing for the weekend. We had an epic time braai-ing everynight, eating straight off the fire, sipping some very good whiskies. Of our married friends only one could make it on short notice and his wife brow beat the crap out of this guy. I've seen my guy friends who were absolute stallions while single, they drank champagne off the tits of hotties and loves their lives. Now they have "grown up". Their lives are dull af, they sold the bikes to buy SUVs. They live to earn money now for a woman who day in and day out treats him like shit and keeps him on a leash.
Most of the time, they just say or go along with what she says just to keep the peace. If they upset her then it's weeks of silence and/or tears. They just don't want to upset her which is perhaps noble of them but it also just creates a spiral of misery. Some of these friends from my varsity days, I don't speak to them anymore because according to their significant others, I'm a bad influence.
I'm not talking about one of my friends, I'm talking about most of them. They just want to keep the peace and so the fire inside of them has died.
I refuse to buy into that story. I've had many girlfriends who all tried to do something similar to myself "you are precious to me, sell the bike" or "man up and...". I refuse.
I think it's pretty clear I'm anti relationship because I don't want to "share" my life with someone. I want my life to myself.