highlandsflyer":aa3f7zct said:
It will sound like a lie, but I really would not want to have lived like him.
I don't think he has ever had the loving relationship a lot of us take for granted.
There is a good reason most of us give up the playboy lifestyle.
Or never got into it.
I can believe that some, on balance, wouldn't choose that lifestyle - and I hear what you're saying there. That said, I'm sure some might say "Well you would say that..." - but I do get it.
On the other hand, I know people who have (what appears to be) a similar outlook to the playboy lifestyle, in some cases, blokes who did have a marriage and a family that they've now evolved from (I don't necessarily mean abandoned either their wife or kids - divorce and / or grown up kids), and now behave more like this.
It's a natural thought that they'll regret it, that when they're old and grey, they'll miss true relationships and companionship. That said, I'm open to the belief that it's simply not what they want or are looking for - either in general, or in their life now.
Some people are just different - and some have experienced the "normal" life, too - they just don't buy into it. I'm not convinced that's all just going to be something they regret in old age, when they can no longer really behave the same.
I suspect there's people on both sides of the divide that either don't truly empathise or get the other perspective - but I'm not convinced that either groups are all deluding themselves or living in denial. Sure, some might, but I suspect many in either group simply have established their preferences.
