****As for Dr. Laura's "unpaid whore" remark, that does not deserve to be quoted and held up as some kind of "truth." ****
Though "whore" is not a word I use in my daily vocabulary generally speaking....I do agree with Dr. Laura's opinion.
It does deserve to be quoted, in my opinion. I, too, am quite tired of the word police.
Obviously, your opinion is different.
I'm tired not only of the word-police, but the "offended"-police.
Heavens we should ever call a spade a spade.
(Of course, if we get back to what a whore really is, we could say the Dr. is wrong. As we posted earlier, a whore is smart enough to get something for it, and I see no moral superiority in someone giving it for free!)
I think we may actually hold more similar opinions on this that we think, with the exception of the "whore" stuff.
Living together has proven not to work. It's an empty existence (as I can speak from first-hand experience). I thought it was "okay" to live with my then fiancee before marriage because, as I reasoned, we were getting married soon anyway. So when he asked to move in with me, I said yes.
Well, it turned out to be a total and complete disaster. After my ex-fiancee continued to drag his feet on saying "I do", I started having second thoughts about the whole situation.
When I told him I thought we should live apart until the wedding, which he had already postponed twice, and that he should move out, he became very angry and left he did...And that was that. Last I heard from friends was that he had moved in with another woman...like, three months after he stopped living with me.
Since then, I haven't considered for one second living with a man before marriage and I haven't considered for one second sex before marriage. So far those decisions have cost me more relationships than I care to list here, or time and space permits.
I feel like I'm waging a losing battle but there are good men out there who I hope will respect my decisions. Sorry for the long-winded response, I just think this is a very important issue.