Don’t repeat drunken new year’s mistake

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I did something bad at a New Year’s Eve party when I was drunk — I gave somebody I know money for sex. She said she had a “low on the rent” problem. She wanted me to do something with her in an upstairs bedroom at the party for $50, so I drunkenly went for it. (She had a condom.) I am from a good Catholic-school background and know what I did was wrong, and it put her in a bad place in my mind. I’m not going to ask for the money back, and I can’t take the sex thing back, so what should I do? I don’t want to confess to a priest — I haven’t been to confession in years — so what should I do?

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I did something bad at a New Year’s Eve party when I was drunk — I gave somebody I know money for sex. She said she had a “low on the rent” problem. She wanted me to do something with her in an upstairs bedroom at the party for $50, so I drunkenly went for it. (She had a condom.) I am from a good Catholic-school background and know what I did was wrong, and it put her in a bad place in my mind. I’m not going to ask for the money back, and I can’t take the sex thing back, so what should I do? I don’t want to confess to a priest — I haven’t been to confession in years — so what should I do?

— Dirty Guy, Downtown

 

Dear Dirty Guy: This is not something you can take back, but you can send up your own prayer, promise not to do it again and put more effort into finding a real relationship of your own that is warm and sexual.

Consider it a wake-up call. You weren’t born to be a carefree bad boy and you need to do things in a way where you can respect yourself. Cut back on the drinking when you’re out socially and it will help to keep you on the straight and narrow.

 

Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6

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