I am saving this for when my daughter is older....there’s so many things I wish I had truly understood the repercussions of and didn’t. This is really well written - thank you for posting it.
You are welcome. We all have to find some things out the hard way. The key is what we learn especially with how to be honest with ourselves. Look at how much our society has been hurt with naive ideas about sex. Trillions is spent in an attempt to patch the damage while the people the money, tolerance, and free love is supposed to help are left even more damaged even more lost and often in a state of near permanent emotional detachment because they become incapable of establishing the deeply personal bonds that are very much a part of what it is to be human. The profile of the most promiscuous have several things in common, depression, drug use, risky sex behavior, increased risk of suicide. The good thing is that this kind of thing can get better. People can and do escape the prison of their own making.