I could almost have been that guy...
...but much younger. At the age of 22 or so having spent lots of time studying the interfaces of psychology, hypnosis, and "magic" I had a funny bag of tricks which I was not above using for amusement- for example I once "trained" a girl to experience a tickling sensation if I hummed a few bars of a particular piece of music.
Later I fell in with a much younger woman and she fell hard in love with me ( I did not discover this until much later- please understand I would have been more gentle otherwise) and we lived together for several years. I eventually realised that she was too-much "into" me and discouraged this as best I could without hurting her (read: not enough). Luckily she met someone else and began "cheating" on me. I found out and let her know it was ok by me- but we were no longer going to be together sexually. So she transferred her affections to this other. Again luckily, we remained friends- and are to this day.
I feel guilty because her "new guy" was rather like "that guy", cutting her off from her old friends (including me) and administering the odd beating (ironic, that, since she was considerably stronger than he and she was well-schooled in the art of hurting a fucker) but after 5 years she's finally kicked that shit to a kerb and married a man who while I find him dull, she finds endlessly fascinating... and he treats her as well (or maybe better) than she deserves. Finally!
(douchebarge, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 6:39, Reply)