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Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12:00 AM

How can I convince my girlfriend that this is as good as it gets?

She's younger, and she's restless, and she wants that spark of the new.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11:26 AM

    You Can't

    If she's contemplating sex with someone other than the person she's in a committed relationship with, it's over barring an unlikely change of heart. I don't believe waiting is the answer. Rather than a grand romantic gesture, most women coming from the place this one is in would likely interpret willingess to wait as additional weakness in a relationship where the man has already been rendered virtually powerless.

    The only thing that resolves heart break to any degree is time, not being the last resort a woman can keep on the shelf in case the new sex doesn't work out.

    —jaystinnett Read jaystinnett's other letters

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