Anonymous wrote:So he can use his words for platonic love just not romantic love, hmm. You know who I really feel bad for? Shannon, she’s given her best reproductive years to being Tyler’s emotional spouse while he wax’s on about her great devotion (ie codependency) and how anyone else would have bailed. Now Shannon gets to hear Jen talking about her sex life with Tyler while she’s spent the last several years picking up all his dang pieces.
Guess how available Shannon was for a bona fide love affair while being Tyler’s it girl? Not at all. This is why Tyler needed a day to answer Jen about getting into a romantic relationship cause he had to run it past his real partner, the ever loyal sacrificing Shannon.
This is more common than you think in the single adult Christian communities. So many weird emotional, non-sexual couplings.
I never considered that, but it’s true.
He apologizes for getting in the way of her goals, but did he ever actively support her finding a real, reciprocal partner? She has been a break-in-case-of-emergency spouse.