Been a while since I logged into SAAFE but I ran to the forum this morning...
Have been dating an ex client for exactly a year. I was his first WG and we hit it off straight away. He was in a miserable marriage, on antidepressants and in desperate need of love. I stepped up to the plate. Despite being a staunch bachelor for the previous 6 years and WG for the last 8.
At first, things were gorgeous and romantic and he seemed to not mind my work at all. He eventually left his wife (and 2 kids!!) to live with me. I continued to work and everything was mostly hunky dory. He came off his antiDs and was starting to become a fully formed confident, lovely bloke, despite the occasional anxious blip.
We have now moved into a proper flat together and things are getting real tense. I think he thought that the new flat would mean I'd stop working and get a 'normal' job. I am self employed and have various projects on the go so I need the flexibility. A normal day job would ultimately put my dreams to bed - and I would resent him for that.
On a side note: I have recently been invited to Vietnam for a week with a regular and the boyf went ape shit about this. I said I wouldn't go and to forget about it, but I'm quite devastated that I've had to turn it down. But, a decent relationship is worth more than an exotic jaunt...right?
He has started having reoccurring dreams about me barebacking punters and being violent towards him. Every day he mentions how he feels jealous and insecure about work - either I will get hurt or I will fall in love with another punter.
I feel like I need to submit to 'civvie street' just to quell his anxieties - do I wanna lose a loving relationship just so I can be a hooker for another decade? Not really...but this lifestyle is all I have ever known. The jobs market at best bores me, at worst terrifies me.
This guy wants to marry me as soon as I stop working. But it feels like it's all on his terms - that he wants to 'tame the shrew'. But I am not one to be domesticated!
What can I do to get him to see my work as WORK? He only sees it from his perspective when we first met and hit it off. I promise him that my bookings are much more clinical and mechanical but he can't believe it.
Ho hum...what's a WG to do?