Harrison
06-14-2007, 12:32 AM
Okay, folks… grab some popcorn. :D
This entertaining OM/YW scandal is straight off the front page of the Wall Street Journal (June 12, 2007)
Something’s puzzling about the story. We don’t have the whole story and there are so many blanks to be filled, and I would appreciate your opinion. Here we go:
A wealthy, married-but-separated, corporate executive, Colby, 53, was having an affair with two sisters -- Jessica, 27, and Sarah, 29 -- at the same time. He started with Sarah first, in 2001. It’s implied that at some point during the next three years, their relationship either broke up or faltered.
The sisters both live in California -- exactly where we‘re not told. We do know that the sisters have a close enough relationship to one another for Sarah to have referred Jessica to Colby in 2003, for help in lining up a job. .
It was shortly after Jessica contacted Colby in 2003 that he wooed her and they began a relationship. He also co-signed a lease for her apartment and helped her out financially.
In 2004, Colby sent Jessica to Tiffany’s to pick out a ring. Meanwhile, in 2004, Sarah resumed her relationship with Colby. :eek: 2004 is also when Colby‘s divorce was filed.
Both sisters say that Colby promised to marry them. Both sisters say he wired or wrote them checks for several thousand dollars every four to six weeks. In 2005, Colby moved to Indiana; he maintained a long-distance relationship with the sisters, flying Jessica out to see him a number of times.
After Colby was fired from his job almost two weeks ago (because of his embarrassing promiscuity) and sued by a third lover, Jessica and Sarah “began comparing notes.”
According to the Wall St. Journal, “They both knew Colby and each knew that the other had been romantically involved with him. But both thought, incorrectly, that the other’s affair had ended.”
My response to that last sentence is “Huh???”
Question for Agelesslove women:
Based on your experience with men, and with a sister you love, how plausible does this sound?? Could a young woman being buttered up with cash, gifts and a promise of marriage really avoid telling her sister?? Or did evil Colby have some other trick up his sleeve?
Please vote and offer any comments you‘d like to share. This could be fun!!
Here are some possibilities I thought of:
#1 Colby somehow managed to play one sister off against the other, saying something like “I’m done with her, but let’s keep this relationship as our special secret, okay?? We don’t want to spoil the surprise. Don’t worry honey, you are my number one!!”
#2 The sisters truly are secretive about their love life and don’t confide in one another with great detail. They therefore are genuinely ignorant of what Colby’s really doing.
#3 One or both sisters lied to one another, thereby confusing the other about who’s affair had really ended.
#4 Each sister actually knew that Colby was dating the other sister. They each decide to ignore it because he’s so charming and/or the money is so nice. They told a polite lie to the reporter writing the story to put themselves in a more favorable light.
This entertaining OM/YW scandal is straight off the front page of the Wall Street Journal (June 12, 2007)
Something’s puzzling about the story. We don’t have the whole story and there are so many blanks to be filled, and I would appreciate your opinion. Here we go:
A wealthy, married-but-separated, corporate executive, Colby, 53, was having an affair with two sisters -- Jessica, 27, and Sarah, 29 -- at the same time. He started with Sarah first, in 2001. It’s implied that at some point during the next three years, their relationship either broke up or faltered.
The sisters both live in California -- exactly where we‘re not told. We do know that the sisters have a close enough relationship to one another for Sarah to have referred Jessica to Colby in 2003, for help in lining up a job. .
It was shortly after Jessica contacted Colby in 2003 that he wooed her and they began a relationship. He also co-signed a lease for her apartment and helped her out financially.
In 2004, Colby sent Jessica to Tiffany’s to pick out a ring. Meanwhile, in 2004, Sarah resumed her relationship with Colby. :eek: 2004 is also when Colby‘s divorce was filed.
Both sisters say that Colby promised to marry them. Both sisters say he wired or wrote them checks for several thousand dollars every four to six weeks. In 2005, Colby moved to Indiana; he maintained a long-distance relationship with the sisters, flying Jessica out to see him a number of times.
After Colby was fired from his job almost two weeks ago (because of his embarrassing promiscuity) and sued by a third lover, Jessica and Sarah “began comparing notes.”
According to the Wall St. Journal, “They both knew Colby and each knew that the other had been romantically involved with him. But both thought, incorrectly, that the other’s affair had ended.”
My response to that last sentence is “Huh???”
Question for Agelesslove women:
Based on your experience with men, and with a sister you love, how plausible does this sound?? Could a young woman being buttered up with cash, gifts and a promise of marriage really avoid telling her sister?? Or did evil Colby have some other trick up his sleeve?
Please vote and offer any comments you‘d like to share. This could be fun!!
Here are some possibilities I thought of:
#1 Colby somehow managed to play one sister off against the other, saying something like “I’m done with her, but let’s keep this relationship as our special secret, okay?? We don’t want to spoil the surprise. Don’t worry honey, you are my number one!!”
#2 The sisters truly are secretive about their love life and don’t confide in one another with great detail. They therefore are genuinely ignorant of what Colby’s really doing.
#3 One or both sisters lied to one another, thereby confusing the other about who’s affair had really ended.
#4 Each sister actually knew that Colby was dating the other sister. They each decide to ignore it because he’s so charming and/or the money is so nice. They told a polite lie to the reporter writing the story to put themselves in a more favorable light.