Thread:Lucky107/@comment-4059927-20171227100613/@comment-4059927-20171231194539

I've always been tenative about sharing the story because there's always going to be someone who thinks I dated a piece of meat, and not a human being. Some people think I dated her because she was a stripper, which just was not the case. Others like to factor in the age difference between us (I was 19, and she was 31) and they think I was somehow in it for the money? Also not the case. There's a lot of judgement that gets passed in regards to anything that people seem to view outside of their field of normalcy.

My own parents were very unsupportive of this relationship I had with Courtney, and even tried to convince me on numerous occasions that she did horrible things that 'all strippers do' which is have sex with her patrons, and do a lot of drugs. Both of which never happened. She enjoyed dancing, but she never engaged in a sexual relationship with any of them. Even to this day my mom has talked about cutting ties with her, even though these days Courtney is married, with a kid, and lives a pretty quiet lifestyle down in San Diego.

I guess that leads to the next phase of this which is my mom trying to protect my wife from a 'whore' like Courtney. The two have met and they get along very well. Nicole grew up in a very open-minded family (her dad is bisexual, and she has a transgender sister) so she's always seen people as being perfectly acceptable for who they are. I guess it's just that older generation that views it this way. My father was never really a religious person, but his parents were staunchly religious, and some of their religious fervor bled into his own beliefs so he never saw Courtney as a human at all. He even told me once that she tried coming onto him in an effort to get us seperated.

Also rowdy shows were the best when I was a kid. We defied our parents and went absolutely fucking insane. I won't go into my drug stories, though they were involved with the music, but I just had a hell of a time. After Analisa was born I decided that maybe calming down was good but from the time I was 14, all the way until I was 25 I'd go to crazy shows, do crazy things, and just have a great time. The 2000s was a great time for Punk Rock, being that our president at the time was a loon who bent over for corporations, and Punk Rock just fed off that and the energy, and chaos that came with the music was awe inspiring.