Old Habits Die Hard Part Five, New habits? Or just old ones recycled? Options

[haute ecole rider]

It's now time to start a new thread for Julian of Anvil. Now that she returns to her hometown, it's rather appropriate to start a new thread to celebrate!

Thanks to all who have read and posted input on Julian's story.

For those coming in late, if you've got the time, here are links to the previous threads:

Chapters One through Seven
Chapters Eight through Thirteen
Chapters Fourteen through Eighteen
Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-two

I hope you continue to enjoy this story as Julian works toward the inevitable conclusion!

[mALX]

I don't minimize how painful something like that is to a 17 year old girl - but as an adult she would have realized there were bad and good men, and that she had just made a bad choice.

Now if she chose to turn to women from that incident, that would be understandable, but she couldn't have stayed totally sexless for (well over 30 years) over one incidence like that! Julian, we gotta talk !!!

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Poor Julian. No wonder she had never had a boyfriend since.

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@mALX: my dear kitty, Jared hadn’t seen seventeen in at least a decade at that time. As for Julian’s sex life since then, you seem to be making the common mistake of substituting love for lust. Julian is one of those people who doesn’t feel the need to have sex at the drop of a hat. Yes, kitty kitty, there are such people capable of living a long time without sex. They just find something else to do . .

You seem to have totally misread my comment. I didn't mention Jared in it at all, nor mistake love for lust or imply having sex at the drop of a hat. When my first husband died I personally went four years without even thinking about ever dating again, so I know better than anyone what love is and that people are capable of going long periods without sex.

Julian made a wrong choice as a teen girl, (the guy was a jerk) - but why did that affect her ability to go on to a healthy relationship (be it with a man or woman) for well over 30 years? All I'm saying, is that seems to be an extremely excessive reaction.

Why wouldn't she have dealt with it? It comes across like she was so traumatized that it remained fresh in her mind - which makes the reader question why would she not deal with the issue, put it behind her, go on to lead a normal happy life?

I was trying to understand how you meant us to take that for the purpose of your story. It brings up questions because IRL if someone reacted that strongly it could reflect on them very differently than what you may be trying to represent in your story - and I didn't know if that was what you were meaning to portray.

This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 27 2011, 03:19 AM