I quit the business to marry and raise kids. I was honest before I married, but, it bothered him so much, he's so sensitive, that I retracted and told him it was just to see if he REALLY loved me...stupid, but I was young, and I think he knew what the truth was he just wanted to hear the truth he liked better...make sense?
Went back into the business when the marriage fell apart, (actually started driving escorts 'cause I thought I was too old at 35, but, there is a niche for everyone)...anyway, quit for a client I fell for cause he couldn't share me with anyone else. That relationship ended.
I am over the "marriage" hump at 48 yrs and I'm happy to have nice relationships with my clients, it's like having several 'easy care' husbands instead of one really, needy, demanding one. My clients know I have other clients but, they all pretend they're the only ones!
I find it more difficult to keep it from my friends and family. I am proud of what I do. I work as hard as a psychologist, nurse, teacher, or pastor and yet it is a part of my life I need to keep invisible. No company picnics.
An old Madame once said "It isn't the drugs and the disease that kills a whore it's the loneliness..." And I have noticed that you can be a reformed murderer or rapist or pedophile and a church anywhere will accept you, just don't be a prostitute.
When I bump into other old whores, and I mean complete strangers, (we seem to sense our kindred spirits, very uncanny) we can enjoy a coffee and stimulating conversation punctuated by misty tears about the 'good ole days'; it is a time to be truly and honestly ourselves (most of these women have moved on, but, really miss their work)
Anyway, I think I may be guilty of hijacking the thread..honesty is the best policy. (Wouldn't it be great if once a year there was a big 'Hookers Ball'? Like a fetish thing, around Xmas when the clients are busy being good boys with their wives and kids?)