If I'm not mistaken this conversation started as a discussion of the person that Ian is seeing NOW, how he has handled it, how he plans to continue handling it, while keeping the other priorities in his life in line - particularly his children.
It's a great topic for many here who are now or who will at some point in the future face a similar situation. There is also good input to be had from others who have already gone through a similar situation.
It wasn't about relationships between DBers who meet on this board, which is an entirely different topic. Ian never brought that up at all, it was steered in this direction by others.
If we can't keep the discussion to what the owner of this thread has brought up HERE, maybe it's best not to participate simply out of common courtesy to the thread owner and respect for the rules, unwritten or otherwise, of this board. Just a suggestion...
Kev
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius
"God alone decides the contest; but we must put our shoulders to the wheel." -Adm. D.G. Farragut
Kevin-38; XW-36 M-2.5, together 4 Bomb-1/6/07; D-6/27/07
