Nice double entendre " means to an end "
Anyway, there are relationships that everyone has throughout their lives called situational friends. You have a friendship relationship (that may be very strong) with them bound by the situation and when that situation ends so does the relationship (but the good memories remain). Couple of examples for me:
a close buddy you always hang out with in the military and when you leave the military you both go back to your regular lives in different parts of the country and the relationship ends.
someone you have a business relationship, for example a coworker or customer, that you hang with and the relationship ends when you or he leaves the business.
a couple that I used to swing with my then long term GF, we would hang out for non-sexual purposes (out to restaurants, boating, etc). when my GF and I split up (amicably — we were going in different directions in our lives) the relationship with the couple ended too.
another one for me was Helen (of Helen and Amy fame). We had a lot to talk about well after the transactional part of the session ended. We both liked each other and when I ran into her years later (she had left the business) We had a long pleasant talk about our lives, and a last farewell hug goodbye.
Although this thread is monger regrets clearly some of the posters really didn't have regrets and neither do — whatever situations that fueled the relationship dissipated and so did the relationship.
A quote form James Anthony Froude "We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
IMHO, the best you can hope for is to live life well in between those two events with few regrets and not hurt anyone unintentionally.
Anyway, there are relationships that everyone has throughout their lives called situational friends. You have a friendship relationship (that may be very strong) with them bound by the situation and when that situation ends so does the relationship (but the good memories remain). Couple of examples for me:
a close buddy you always hang out with in the military and when you leave the military you both go back to your regular lives in different parts of the country and the relationship ends.
someone you have a business relationship, for example a coworker or customer, that you hang with and the relationship ends when you or he leaves the business.
a couple that I used to swing with my then long term GF, we would hang out for non-sexual purposes (out to restaurants, boating, etc). when my GF and I split up (amicably — we were going in different directions in our lives) the relationship with the couple ended too.
another one for me was Helen (of Helen and Amy fame). We had a lot to talk about well after the transactional part of the session ended. We both liked each other and when I ran into her years later (she had left the business) We had a long pleasant talk about our lives, and a last farewell hug goodbye.
Although this thread is monger regrets clearly some of the posters really didn't have regrets and neither do — whatever situations that fueled the relationship dissipated and so did the relationship.
A quote form James Anthony Froude "We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
IMHO, the best you can hope for is to live life well in between those two events with few regrets and not hurt anyone unintentionally.
it’s posts like that which remind me our forum is much more than conversation on our sexual addictions.