Caught?
You make it sound like a disease, which I guess in a way it is, bearing in mind the circumstances.
. . . called Emotional Attachment Syndrome [E.A.S.].
A very streetwise - MUCH more so than this "foolish, fond, old man" - MILFy Escort whom I saw regularly clearly "saw me coming" and played me for the old fool I was at the time. She was a lone parent, with whom I had one or two shared interests - as well as me paying her regularly for sex - and we went occasionally to the theatre or to concerts or gigs, etc, with yours truly - of course - paying for everything. She had a teenager at home and kept implying that once the child had gone to University, then we might become an item.
Of course, I ignored all the times she came up with barely credible excuses for 'standing me up' until, eventually, belatedly, the penny dropped. Yes, of course, she'd got an Overnight bookings with another punter, and his cash counter for far more than my feelings.
This must have been the best part of 10 years ago now; and my next Regular, whom I'd been seeing at more or less the same time, made it very clear that she was a SP - pure and simple - and that if I started being as fluffy with her as I'd been about the other one, then I'd have to take my business elsewhere. So I stopped being so soppy - went back to the mantra I had from my early days as a punter: "I go for a shag; not a relationship." - and haven't looked back.
But it's very easy, especially if you're an older, single punter without the highest self-esteem in the world to misread what you think you see. From time to time, when looking on AW for someone new to see, I see some of the sycophantic Feedback that various punters leave every month or so on a SP's Profile and think, "He - poor beggar - has got what I used to have!"
