Travelling companion
Our dear friend (We will call her Ann) lost her hubby over 5 years ago. Ann has been ready for a while now to move forward and do something her husband never wanted to do....travel across Canada. On...
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loulou57 wrote:
Wow, what a lot of comments here. Some questionable???
Let's clear some things up here, Ann is looking for someone, she says a man to...join her..on this trip. She is not looking for romance and would hope that nobody would expect her to.
This trip would be a joint trip. Although her dream trip is to travel across Canada I don't think I posted anywhere that it was a...all her way trip. She said of course her companions imput would be taken into consideration. They would plan where they would go and what each would like to see and do.
We feel that Ann feels more safe with man with her. I know that may sound silly but you need to know her to understand her reasoning.
We made some progress this weekend on the type of RV she should get and the company she is looking for. She still feels that there are gentlemen out there that are looking for the same thing.
Thanks for all your comments
Loulou - well thank you for editing your post and not accusing me of being insistent that she offer sex in return.
As to your edited comments, you see to be leaning towards her thinking this is now a good idea and that she is being reasonable in her plan. That's a big jump from your OP.
She says the man's input will "be taken into consideration", which in reality means "if I like his input, I'll agree to it, but if it conflicts with my plans, he's SOL." She owns the RV, she's paying for the trip - no matter her best intentions, she's got all the power in this traveling relationship. If the companion doesn't like it, his only option is to drop out mid-trip and find his own way home.
I understand the idea that traveling with a man puts her mind at ease, but I think she really needs to work on the idea of traveling in an RV closer to home. She's got a lot of emotion twisted up in this dream trip and her current plan is going to end up less than satisfactorily.
How is she going to determine the compatibility between her and this man? Is she going to have him complete a 100 page questionnaire? Is she going to make 6 months' worth of weekend trips with him so they can get used to each other? Or is she going to wait until they are on their cross country trip to learn that he talks in his sleep, reads until 4 a.m., takes a nap every day between 2 and 5 p.m., etc.?
