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Dora,Tai, and Therapy

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mikeybones:
I know as a new user on most forums it's taboo to make your first post a thread. In my defense I used to post infrequently way back and have no clue where/what my info is. Here's the issue that's been nagging me though:Dora and marten split mainly because she had unresolved issues. Faye coaxes her into therapy to work on them. Dora agrees that it's in her best interest as well as the interest of future suitors that she not date til she's got a better handle on things. She even mentions this when asked out by an older male counterpart(you know the guy) So seeing as the story line never mentioned any grand breakthroughs in her therapy , why is she going through wih a romantic involvement with tai? Why are her friends allowing and encouraging her to do so,especially one who so firsthand what her issues can do? It seems beyond irresponsible on all parts. Did I miss something?
Also,why did marten put up with tai always talking about wanting to bed Dora when Dora and he were dating?had tai been a guy friend saying that, I'm pretty sure marten would have told that dude off. Why the double standard?

Is it cold in here?:
Welcome back, sorta-new person!

Marten probably figured Tai was kidding. In any event, she was respecting the relationship with her actions.

Why are Dora's friends so supportive? I hope it's because they're being supportive. I hope it's not because they have the stupid old sexist idea that girl-girl relationships aren't as real.

pwhodges:
Why did he put up with it?  Well, presumably because he had no reason not to trust her, even if it was uncomfortable or awkward.  And anyway, he could hold his own at times.

Abyssalin:
Also do note that Marten and Dora themselves weren't entirely innocent,

I could list the comics if i took the time but there has been more than one occasion where Dora has wondered what Tai was like in bed/naked/etc while still with Marten, and i'm sure Marten has at least once thought what she might have looked like naked (Pretty sure this was after Tai's Clit peircing)

Infact. Here is one i was talking about Dora and Tai

Carl-E:
I think the OP's points are well made.  For one thing, Dora did have to be threatened to actually start her therapy, and seems to doubt its efficacy.  She knows she has problems in relationships, and we've received evidence of her issues with boys from Sven. 

With the issues she has, I doubt her relationships with women would be much better, but I also wonder if she's even had any serious female relationships.  We know she found out she likes women early on, and that she had a series of alpha-goth boyfriends before Marten, but since we know nothing about her and women, perhaps there was nothing for us to know, beyond some crushes or youthful flirtations/"experiments". 

My point is that she (probably erroneously) may think that things with Tai wouldn't go the way her other relationships have. 


Also, the flush of attraction in the beginning of a new romance will often turn off the participant's brains.  In an old King Arthur movie from the 80's, Nicol Williamson as Merlin says, "Love is deaf as well as blind" when he can't turn Arthur's attention away from Guenevere.  I've come to believe love is actually autistic, shutting out the external world in favor of the internal. 

I'm sure she'll be gushing to her therapist about her new romance, assuming things go well on this first date...

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