In article ,
 "bluesmama"  wrote:

> mark_sobolewski{at}yahoo.com wrote:
> > bluesmama wrote:
> > > mark_sobolew...{at}yahoo.com wrote:
> > > > bluesmama wrote:
> > > > > Dustbin wrote:
> > > > > > Hyerdahl wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The man committed adultry; what do you expect?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Maybe he wouldn't have to if his wife had been
> > > > > > doing her job properly.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps he wasn't doing his properly and she lost interest.
> > > >
> > > > In the words of the Johnny Cochran's "Chewbacca
defense"
> > > >
> > > > This doesn't make sense!
> > > >
> > > > If he wasn't doing his job properly, how could
> > > > he have an affair with a younger career woman
> > > > who presumably had the financial resources to
> > > > screw any man she wanted?  I think that's a pretty
> > > > good endorsement of his ability in the sack, yes?
> > > >
> > > > Now if his wife was cheating on him, then you
> > > > might have a point.  Nice try though.
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Mark Sobolewski
> > >
> > > Well, it was meant to point out the "maybe he had an
affair because
> > his
> > > wife wasn't doing her job properly" nonsense. If there
are problems
> > in
> > > a marriage, they're the responsibility of both parties to find a
> > > solution to.
> >
> > You're getting off the subject.
> >
> > The point was that his wife maybe wasn't doing a good job in
> > the sack and you wanted to somehow imply that his affair
> > was due to him maybe being lousy in bed.  It sounds as if
> > you were making a reach to try to defend her sexual reputation.
>
> Whether or not his wife was doing a good job in bed, to get back to the
> point we were discussing, might have depended in some way on how good a
> job her husband was doing in bed. One partner can have all the energy,
> enthusiasm, sex appeal or sexual technique in the world, but it takes
> two people working together to make monogamy work.

And if he has all of that energy and she just sits there,
then she's the "weakest link".

That doesn't excuse him from cheating, of course.

> > > I suppose some would say his having an affair was a
> > > solution, but it didn't seem to help the marriage any.
> >
> > All we know, for now, is that he was enjoying sex with
> > a presumably younger woman.  That's it.
> >
> > > And as far as
> > > the young career woman sleeping with an older career man? Sounds
> like
> > > sleeping your way to the top to me, but I'm just old and cynical
> like
> > > that. Maybe it was true, albeit, adulterous, love.
> >
> > Since they were in different companies, she wouldn't
> > be sleeping her way to the top.  Once again, you
> > aren't making sense.  Although it is possible that maybe
> > she was doing it to get inside information but I imagine
> > she could get that better by flirting it out of him.
>
> Contacts don't have to be in the same company to be valuable.
>


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