SEX AND SANITY

Science tells us that being in the throes of new "love" is the result of chemicals rushing to the brain/body. The Greeks thought this madness. Confessing to the experience of being enslaved by these chemicals myself, I must concur. Then of course there is some science that tells us that chocolate releases similar chemicals. So, when we meet someone we find attractive (and there is more science on the subject of why we find possible candidates appealing) are we prisoners of chemicals? Again, I've been so imprisoned....willingly and wonderfully so. Did it last....no. When these chemicals drain from the brain something else must take their place. If you can only function in the "high" state, it's over...there's nothing...nada.

So, when the chemicals wane, some stray, looking for that fix again. My dear friends, who shall remain nameless...had what I will call "an episode" He had...to use a delicately old fashioned word... a dalliance... with a woman he'd known a long time, who had always thought she should have been his chosen. His wife...my close friend,,, was devastated. But rather than falling apart she consoled herself by sleeping with her pool boy, an acutely handsome specimen who was working his was through college. She told herself it was something special, he was special...not just a pool boy...something far more elevated emotionally...but really it was all about her marriage,

The pool boy coupling was short lived, as she'd accomplished was she'd set about. After she'd ended it she went directly to her husband and told him all that had transpired. He was furious, hurt, humiliated, and that was the end of either of them straying. They had something to replace the high. They've been married happily for years

Disclaimer - don't try this at home. The results may be tragically different.

As to these chemicals....remember the Greeks. You may be quite mad...deliciously so,,, So be it...