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That woman you know who has the relationship with the athlete sounds like she is treating a mistress relationship like a marriage. Poor fool.
After all those years, she should get smart and at least see if she can get him to buy her a house with reasonable property taxes. It sounds to me that she is getting used as much as she is using.
My guess is that she loves the guy.
I have known women like that. An amazing number of so-called hard-hearted whores/golddiggers seem to be romantics under the skin. Women I have talked to who are sex workers don't seem at all clever or prepared for the future. They seem to live day to day.
I am told by people who should know that strippers often pay their fee to the club and then take their money home to boyfriends who provide them with no benefit or protection. They actually support these slackers. Of course, it is also possible that some of them turn tricks on the side.
Someday someone ought to do a study on what happens to these women -- follow them for a number of years. I would bet that violence, drugs, or mental illness gets a lot of them.
