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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Guardian article & responses Oct 1, 2016 10:27:20 GMT -5 via mobile Dan, JMX, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2016 10:27:20 GMT -5 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/01/how-it-feels-to-live-in-a-sexless-marriage-readers-respond?CMP=fb_us#link_time=1475329786

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Guardian article & responses Oct 1, 2016 18:55:24 GMT -5 DryCreek likes this

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Post by greatcoastal on Oct 1, 2016 18:55:24 GMT -5

Great to hear many of our same problems, emotions, and circumstances , posted in other places! The down side is wondering what we will go through starting over and dealing with meeting a refuser that wants to put on their fake masks and lure us in. Time , knowledge, counceling, experience,advice,and training will hopefully keep us from making the same mistakes?

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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Guardian article & responses Oct 1, 2016 21:29:12 GMT -5 via mobile DryCreek likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2016 21:29:12 GMT -5 Could have been straight out of here.

JMX Senior Members Posts: 1,281	Guardian article & responses Oct 1, 2016 21:54:39 GMT -5 via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JMX on Oct 1, 2016 21:54:39 GMT -5 Oct 1, 2016 21:29:12 GMT -5 @phinheasgage said: Could have been straight out of here. I think one or two may have been

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Guardian article & responses Oct 2, 2016 6:01:32 GMT -5 DryCreek, eternaloptimism, and 2 more like this

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Post by jim44444 on Oct 2, 2016 6:01:32 GMT -5

I found the article to be a repudiation of the Guardian article that inspired this one (see the link in beginning of the article). In the "How to Cope" piece the author presented the standard worn-out tripe of useless advise. In this piece the respondents highlighted that all the talks, the therapy, the date nights, the bacon scented candles do not provide any true benefit other than an "I Tried" merit badge.
To me these articles are amusing in the way that some DIY articles are written by someone who cannot differentiate between a hammer and a screwdriver.

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baza Senior Members Tread your own path Posts: 5,556	Guardian article & responses Oct 2, 2016 6:03:11 GMT -5 jim44444 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by baza on Oct 2, 2016 6:03:11 GMT -5 I agree. Those 6 stories could have been lifted straight out of EP ILIASM or here, even though they were responses to a sort of a scented candles article preceeding.
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Guardian article & responses Oct 2, 2016 17:52:27 GMT -5 via mobile DryCreek, jim44444, and 1 more like this

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Oct 2, 2016 6:01:32 GMT -5 jim44444 said:

Yes - I felt that at least people were responding back to the original article and reporting the real-life results of the bacon scented candle strategy.

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