Love - Athena

Athena is a wonderfully complex human being. To say she suffers from highs and lows is a gross understatement. She is a stereotypical emotional roller coaster, careening down the track of life, always within one bad curve of jumping the rails. She has extremely high expectations of herself and those around her.

She often finds herself terribly disappointed.

Athena is a sexual magnet. Men (and some women) are drawn to her like flies. Physically, she's paradoxical. There are many women far more physically beautiful. Her face is scarred with horrible acne and her facial features sit just a little too forward on her face, as if drawn on incorrectly. If she were a cartoon, I'd want to erase her head and start over. Her body is rather boyish, with beefy shoulders and without any hips to speak of.

And yet, she is one of the most strangely alluring women anyone will ever meet. Perhaps it's pheromones. Perhaps, its a combination of everything that she is that creates a perfect storm that everyone perceives as beautiful Athena. I'm not sure.

Mentally, she's one of the most brilliant people you will ever meet, and complex. She is not a simple woman, by any means, although she says she has simple needs. Athena has layers and layers of complexity that someone in the psychiatric profession would simply drool over. Or tire from. For one, I find her personality both addictively interesting and emotionally taxing, to say the least.

Athena is, at her core, a good person with more potential in this world than anyone I have ever known. Unfortunately, she may ultimately be her own worst enemy, self destructing before she can ever realize her full potential.

She has only been married for two years. She says she loves her husband, but is always speaking ill of him around others. She wants to have his children, but can't imagine how he will provide for them. She imagines herself growing old with him, yet doesn't seem to enjoy conversations she has with him now.

Around her first anniversary, she had sex with someone other than her husband. In her own home. While her husband was there, asleep. Oh, and the sex wasn't with a stranger or someone she works with, but a relative of her husband's. Someone her husband actually respects. Someone he's known all his life.

If a woman wanted to really scar a man emotionally, how would she do it? Athena answered that question cunningly.

Listening is what I do. Why be judgemental?