{"id":687,"date":"2006-10-02T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/to-flirt-or-not-to-flirt.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:36:31","slug":"to-flirt-or-not-to-flirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/to-flirt-or-not-to-flirt.htm","title":{"rendered":"To Flirt Or Not To Flirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her divorce is just starting and her husband is living with the &#8220;other woman.&#8221; She&#8217;s looking for love in all the wrong places, and far too soon. She said: <em>&#8220;I am having all these lustful thoughts about some of the men I work with. There about 8 men at work that I feel like if I could get one in the conference room for just a few minutes this fire would go out.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>I replied:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not unusual to want to prove that you are a desirable woman by flirting with other men. If another man or men find you attractive then it proves your desirability after your husband&#8217;s betrayal. He may not have wanted you but other men do.<\/p>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t divorced. If you want to end up with a very bad reputation very fast, just act on all those impulses you&#8217;re feeling. Keep dressing provocatively. Keep showing cleavage. Keep thinking about sex with the men you work with, even the married ones.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let lust interfere with your work; you need to focus on doing the best job you can to provide for yourself and your children, not on which of your co-workers can best &#8220;scratch your itch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, a cold shower is a good idea but a better one is to invest in a few sex toys for yourself. Self-love is not a negative, it can be a reputation-saver and you&#8217;ll learn a lot about what really turns you on. When you&#8217;re legally divorced, have worked through the normal divorce &#8220;fall-out,&#8221; and are ready to consider healthy intimate relationships you can use what you&#8217;ve learned to enhance the sexual aspects of new relationships.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also not uncommon for betrayed wives to end up as the &#8220;other woman.&#8221; Even though they feel great anger at their own ex for betraying them, they feel little or no regret at falling in love with a married man. True, some married men are &#8220;separated and working on a divorce&#8221; but until the legalities are out of the way, they&#8217;re still married. Too many times they&#8217;re only &#8220;separated&#8221; in their minds and looking for a little &#8220;side action&#8221; which is why it&#8217;s safer to stay away from anyone who is not legally divorced.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re going through some tough times right now. Priortize. Focus on your children and your work. And &#8220;scratch your own itches&#8221; until you&#8217;re emotionally and legally ready to become intimate with a new partner.<\/p>\n<p>This is just my opinion, of course. You&#8217;ll do what you have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her divorce is just starting and her husband is living with the &#8220;other woman.&#8221; She&#8217;s looking for love in all the wrong places, and far too soon. She said: &#8220;I am having all these lustful thoughts about some of the men I work with. There about 8 men at work that I feel like if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/to-flirt-or-not-to-flirt.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Flirt Or Not To Flirt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}