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Two Timing Love Cheats: Baby Boomers Who Sleep Around
Sexual liberation is great and for sure nobody wants to go back to the days when nice girls sat on the porch and did their courting under the eagle eye of Grandma or a vigilant brother or father. Baby boomers are accustomed to sexual freedom and all the fun that goes with an independent love life. Unfortunately, however, people who have the freedom to indulge their romantic interests also have a tendency to be free with other people’s feelings from time to time.
Baby boomers who grew up in the fifties will remember how sternly love cheats were dealt with in those days. Dating was generally viewed to be something you did socially rather than sexually and so it was not unusual for girls to go out with different men over a few weeks but only very bad girls would sleep with each one of them and probably earn a shabby reputation for doing so.
Long term boyfriends were usually made official in some way; with token rings exchanged and the words ‘going steady’ bandied about to justify physical intimacies that would be unacceptable between casual friends. Love cheats would therefore be considered ‘heels’ and dealt with accordingly.
Over the decades, love cheats and two timers have changed little in essentials and nowadays, despite the World having matured with regard to sexual freedom, infidelity and disloyalty still hurt as much as back in the fifties! Psychological articles describe to us the kind of emotional pain we feel when we are being deceived by a lover as almost unbearable. We struggle to find ways to deal with it; we withdraw from our friends as we try to come to terms with the loss we feel as a result of being two timed or ‘made a fool of’; we still feel as offended by love rats in this Century as we did in the last.
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Of course there are different types of love cheat. Baby boomers who have gone through life cheating on this person and that person and made a habit of being disloyal will probably never change and never understand the benefits of being faithful to one companion. Others simply find themselves in a deadly three way situation from which they cannot escape and are actually quite nice people who have become caught in an emotional trap.
Love cheats, despite their reputation for having more fun than anyone else, rarely enjoy life. Psychological articles show us that so many love rats have an ingrained sense of inferiority and so find their multiple sexual partners a comfort. They are able to assure themselves that they are popular; in demand; attractive; sought after. In fact, anyone with the right frame of mind can be a love cheat: good looks and superior intelligence are not vital elements, although a degree of charm would be useful.
Baby boomers with a reputation for being “unfaithful in love” will probably enjoy a wide circle of friendships but few friends will trust a love cheat entirely – after all, if a man (or woman) is prepared to lie and manipulate in their intimate relationships, why would they apply a greater degree of integrity to a casual friendship?
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