Aime we both you wish well and that you find what you seek
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Aime I've been saddened by your posts. I'm struggling to find suitable words for that but I do hope things change for you. Perhaps a bit closer to home that it might be at other times, a friend who is close to retirement lost his wife unexpectedly in an accident recently. A reminder of how much of what we expect and value can be gone without warning.

I am left wondering why you think being gay would give you a better chance of forming a sincere relationship though.

Maybe not the place for that discussion but if it's what it seems like I'd suggest it may not be sexual orientation that's the issue but what you look for in a partner. We are not all insincere so and so's. I'm not trying to be hurtful with that, more in a vein of don't give up, try something different.

Best wishes
R0bert

Dear RObert. Thank you for your concern and you're quite right. This really isn't the place for a discussion about my plight, but I assure you it's got nothing to do with me being fussy. I see the inner beauty in everyone. My last partner was a very unusual man who had been through a lot, but he was unique in that he took me for what I am and never questioned it. Such a person is very rare. If I hadn't insisted that he give up riding his push-bike and start driving a car he might still be with me, but he "left" suddenly in early 2004, so although I'll never forget him, I'm well over the painful part today.

RObert, from your posts I believe you're a kind and level headed person, so I'll just say that although I haven't completely given up on finding another special somebody, the reality is that it's highly unlikely to happen to the point where I no longer think about it, but for all that I'm happy enough with my lot in life, so please don't feel sad. I have family & grandchildren and a head full of short stories to write, so for now that'll do.

I am still waiting for a homosexual to say something positive about heterosexual marriage.

(Rather like waiting for a feminist of university academic to say something positive about the male gender).

While everyone is supposed to be tolerant of homosexuality, there doesn't appear to be much said in support of heterosexuality.

As for children to be conceived in a testube in an IVF clinic, a disgusting abomination of nature, suitable only as a feminist fantasy, but in no way suitable in reality.

Perkin Warbeck,
Sorry to inform you that most countries register marriage - it has nothing to do with theocracy. The Greek and Roman Empire recorded marriages as I stated long before Rome became a Christian State, for the purposes I have stated.

Marriages were associated in society with fertility (producing offspring), and they were for life. Homosexuality was frequently practised in Greece and Rome, but it was never considered a marriage as married men engaged in such acts, as much as they did prostitution. These society was considered as decadent for such behaviour. Most sexual diseases are spread by multiple partners and anal sex. Therefore avoidance leads to a healthy society.

The Christian Church has always recognised such practises as against the purpoese of God and the welfare of the State

Dear Aime,

Sounds to me like you could do with a bit
of a laugh so here goes...

Men are like parking spaces.
The good ones are taken
And the only ones left are handicapped.

So chin up - you're doing fine!