Actually, I think we are both well aware that feelings can grow on both of our ends. This is life though, isn’t it? It’s not static. There’s an ebb and a flow and roads that we should take or shouldn’t take, and paths that we should or shouldn’t cross. There are good and bad decisions and consequences for all of them. We both believe that people are placed in your life for a reason and neither one of us is sure of what that reason is right now. The reason may be something that makes him closer to his wife in the long run – and that would be a great thing for him. I am someone who, if I care for someone, I truly do want them to be happy – even without me. The reason for our friendship may be that he’s teaching me about acceptance of other people. There could be a myriad of reasons why we became friends. He can be just a perverted, old cross-dresser looking to have sex with any woman that will have him. I didn’t think that way, but it seems that most of you do. I believe some of you may help in the perpetuation of stereo-types of CD’ers. He was not seeking a woman online, I asked him questions and he was being kind of enough to answer. Then when we started talking, we kind of have a connection – so to speak – and I’m not sure where it will lead or if it will lead us anywhere at all. We may be friends for the rest of our lives and I hope that is the case. We also may just run out of things to talk about and go our own way, and that is fine too. It’s just very surprising and disappointing to me that many think he’s a dirty old man looking for a little something on the side. It’s very sad because I see a wonderful man, who really just wants a woman to accept him for who he is – even if it’s only via friendship. Could we get hurt? Yes. Should I run from every life even where I could get hurt? I don’t think so. It’s not the way that I want to live.