Reluctant Wingwoman

My ex-boss and his wife owned and operated a business together. She was hesitant to have children, especially so soon after the loss of her beloved mother. But he had a timetable and became frustrated with her reluctance to start breeding. He began flirting with me, at first very subtly but later more obviously and in front of her. Since I'm naive and stupid, at the time I thought he just liked me and appreciated my work ethic; I admit that I enjoyed the attention. It took me far too long to realize the game he was playing – using me to demonstrate that, if his wife wasn't willing to fall in line with his parenting agenda/timetable, he was perfectly capable of charming a young woman into building a family with him (I wouldn't have – I have a very strict rule about married men. Of course, he didn't know that.). Fortunately, I left to go back to school before it got super awkward. He and his wife had a child about a year and a half later. To this day, I still feel used and manipulated and angry with myself for taking so long to have a clue.

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Life is Lessons

Jan 21, 2017 at 2:33am

There is a saying freedom is what you do with what's been done to you; instead of beating yourself up know that you learned a lesson. You are young so please try to get out of the habit of beating yourself up over things that you didn't know about - this can lead to one being an angry bitter person in middle age. This was a good lesson that could save you hardship down the line; a book that might benefit you to read is The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker.

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A Libra......

Jan 21, 2017 at 5:59pm

I know a woman who used me as a goad to get her husband to pay attention to her more.....and ruined my 20 year friendship with them both.

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