Felt bad about what? Bad sexin' technique? Weird dick? Religious guilt?

So it wasn't a first-time-fuck offense? This is just getting weirder! I'm trying to imagine the conversation:

It sounds like you made the best of the situation- really, what else could you have done when you figured it out? Had a shouting match? It went as well as it could have. I *totally* agree that getting women interested "legitimately" was part of his deal. Any guy with cash could have saved all that Skyping time and…

My feeling is that consent obtained through misrepresentation and outright lies is no consent at all- as in, would I have agreed to meet and bone if you were honest about going behind your wife's back? No? Then, well...

Thanks for responding to my angry reply with patience and a thoughtful explanation. I was thinking that you were one of those young whippersnappers that would change her tune when she got to be past 40 or so herself, but- point well taken.

TWENTY BUCKS??? Ugh! What the hell was he thinking?? Because, all of the things you said. Wow.

Damn, anyone rich and lucky enough to own actual paintings by Frida Kahlo should spell the artist's name correctly.

Your first point: yeah, totally on board.

I'm with you in the belief that Dame Maggie knows exactly what she looks like, gives zero fucks, plus has a great time delivering all the best lines on Downton. Also, she is a complete BAMF who did Harry Potter during chemotherapy, and for that she gets to wear all the best costumes and have all the zingiest lines…

That's all kinds of sociopathic in a way, right? I'm sure that combination of ruthlessness and meticulous served him well in his job, but I feel frothingly angry for all the girls he lied to- and, again, sorry for the poor wife who probably has no clue.

I know a guy who was rejected by girls in high school AND had a termagent of a mother (can confirm, have met the lady) with the result being he loathes women, but doesn't seem to realise it. He came into some really major cash not too long ago, and it's been very... enabling. Makes me cringe for my gender, seeing the…

Excellent point. What was I thinking? :-(

Silence money indeed. Well, I got taken in by someone who probably also was in a relationship, and all I got out of the deal was a couple nice dinners and a distinctly shady break-up email. Some hush money would have been okay, I s'pose.

Okay, that made me smile.

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It's not so simple- she really was the redhead in the black satin top drinking mojitos at the Drake. It wasn't so much a ploy as a trap laid by a lying asshole. The author got out unscathed, but I feel all kinds of sorry for his poor wife. She probably has no clue what she's married to (and has reproduced with).

Just curious, was the money he left meant to pay hotel and room service or whatever, or was he literally paying you like you were a rented girl??

I disagree that "any regular intelligent human" would make a scene when a flight attendant calls them out on switching seats before take-off.

A friend of mine is an FA, a purser, and says it *is* her decision if someone gets thrown off a plane. The safety of the cabin is her responsibility, and she's done that very thing. She informs the Captain, but it's her call to get them bounced.

It's common here in Canada. The seats are considered an upgrade, and they charge a fee. Also you have to be willing to take control of opening the exit door in an emergency, so very elderly or infirm people would not be seated there.