Chris Abraham — of the 2 podcasts /interviews
( Podcast 1
and Podcast 2 ) about his year-long vow of celibacy–
was recently featured in current Atlantic Magazine in an article entitled MARRY HIM!! by Lori Gottlieb.
Knowing Chris a bit better since the 2 podcasts, and now reading this article that he has posted on his blog, I did post a number of replies and we were having a virtual conversation in front of the virtual world.
I will let you take the time to go read his original post and then my replies and his replies to my replies.
Realizing this is one article based on an interview that is 2 years old, still one has to wonder has the man changed?
What’s going on in his life?
Doctors are people too and Atlantic does end up in a few waiting rooms. Someone that knows that woman MD will eventually tell her about the article particularly if they know both the woman in question and Abraham when they were dating. It was obviously no secret to their friends. Don’t you think *someone* will tell her?
How would she feel about this article, only to realize that the interview is 2 years old?
Question for Chris Abraham: what is your feeling about this woman now?
Have you changed your mind about her?
What about the intervening time?
You had a series of other short lived relationships and then a year of celibacy.
What has changed in your life because of the year long sabbatical?
Anything? Nothing?
What are your feelings towards women now?
Would you change how you date women currently?
Are you still a bit of a commitmentphobe?
Yes this is very personal.. but you opened up Pandora’s Box in the podcasts and left *lots* of questions– particularly since your year of celibacy has ended.
Tell us Chris Abraham– marketing wizard! Inquiring minds want to know– particularly apropos to Valentine’s Day..
Stevie Wilson
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> How would she feel about this article,
> only to realize that the interview is
> 2 years old?
I don’t know. I do care.
> What is your feeling about this woman now?
I love her. I wish her well. The only thing she did to hurt me was to be honest with me and true to herself. She just wasn’t that into me.
> Have you changed your mind about her?
Still love her very much. She has never been anything but generous and good to me — would I have like her to be more open and available to me? Yes! If it were inauthentic? No way! Hurt like a bitch, however; still hurts, especially after reading the inteview: my ego, my pride. She didn’t hurt me, I hurt myself by throwing me against that wall again and again.
> What about the intervening time?
Well, que sera, sera. She’s expecting and is in love and he’s in love with her. I wish her well and happiness.
> You had a series of other short lived
> relationships and then a year of celibacy.
Not really. Since high school, there was a 2-year, another 2 year, a three year, and then this 4 year. OK, not a decade, but not “short.”
> What has changed in your life because of
> the year long sabbatical?
> Anything? Nothing?
Well, I have extended indefinitely. I think I will save myself until I find someone who can distract me away from work more than just a roll in the hay. No more hay rolls. Not worth it to me, he says… there is a Spring in Berlin — they tell me even this Capitalist Monk will be done for.
> What are your feelings towards women now?
Well, I am feeling a little beat up in the trust department.
> Would you change how you date women currently?
Yes, not at all. Friends only.
> Are you still a bit of a commitmentphobe?
Now, more than ever. I need to time to heal, time to “process” and to be honest, the way I work these days, I would for sure be the most shitty boyfriend you could ever imagine. Worse.