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                    ...She came to me for a   turned out to be real. And Love happened.  neighbors, as often happens, hinted that his
              ENG   consultation in heavy rain. It                              wife Elizabeth does not keep faith with him.
                    happened in Alanya in late   Friends asked: "Why you, how did he   Then everything was like in a nightmare.
          autumn. She walked into my office to the   choose you? What does it take to please   Arthur demanded a divorce, guilt tore Lisa
          sound of thunder. I put an umbrella on   such a man?" ‑ and they looked at them   apart, and Adem... confessed that he was
          the floor, streams of water flowed from   either with admiration or with envy. And Lisa   married. He may have loved Lisa, but he
          it. She sat on the soft sofa opposite me in   finally felt warmed up and exhaled: "I do   could not go against the family and, having
          an uncomfortable position. I looked for a   not know why. I fell in love with him myself   removed himself from the scandal, remained
          more convenient position, but I didn't find it.   and could only look at him admiringly. I felt   to live with his lawful spouse. Lisa, on the
          She looked up at me and turned out to be   that all my accumulated tenderness and   other hand, remained on the wreckage of
          a beautiful woman in her early thirties. A   desire to love were for him, for him. And   her life and brought these wreckage to my
          brunette with velvety brown eyes.  then I saw how he was looking at me like a   office, looking at me with a puzzled look.
                                             goddess. That's how it all started."
            My question: "Tell me what you want" led                              ...I believe that Lisa will be fine. And I see
          to a long pause. We started a conversation,   Arthur was strong, silent, serious, smart,   in her story and in herself the manifestation
          and gradually my client got comfortable,   and tough. And Elizabeth was over the   of those very qualities that will help her to
          relaxed, settled down comfortably on the   moon with happiness. After all, he not only   stand up again and enter a new round of
          couch. And she said: "I want to figure out   married her but also adopted her child. The   life. All I need is to show her, as in a mirror,
          how to live on." And after a while, under   reality was like a fairy tale. A big house in   herself. Let them see that she can and can do
          the noise of the soft Alanian rain outside the   the country, the opportunity not to work and   it. And already a new vision of her destiny
          window, she began to tell.         raise a son, his own car, presented for his   will give her the strength to live on. Maybe
                                             birthday. For nine magical years, everything   she will find some kind of resource or talent
            I was sitting on the sofa opposite, listening   was really good. Arthur's business was   in herself and with its help, she will earn
          to the client, enjoying communicating   booming. And at some point, he decided   money for a living. Surely she will still find
          with her and thinking. My thoughts were   to buy a couple of houses abroad. First in   her feminine happiness. In the meantime,
          that almost all the women's stories of my   Montenegro, then in Turkey, in the resort   she looks at me from the sofa in my office,
          clients are stories about the search for love.   Alanya. And life has become even brighter   and I think she will succeed. Necessarily.
          Outwardly, not in yourself. The search for   and more interesting. But... separately.   Just like you and me :‑)
          the person who will love and give self‑  Lisa spent the winter at sea, and Arthur
          confidence. Finding Yourself through Love…  continued to do business in Russia.  P. S. By the way, it would be interesting for
                                                                                me to talk to you about who a real man is in
            Her name was Lisa, she was born in the   It is not surprising that Lisa soon finds   our feminine understanding. In this story, he
          Russian province, grew up and studied   herself in a hurricane of feelings again.   appears suddenly, but in fact, determines
          there. The girl came to Moscow already   Her new love was the cute Turk Adem. The   both the course of the story and its finale.
          with a diploma of a young specialist in   owner of the restaurant where Elizabeth   And I think that at the moment when he
          search of a better life. In the capital, as   liked to have dinner sometimes. He looked   appeared, many women, reading, sighed:
          usual, there was a stormy romance that   after her beautifully, gave flowers, and said   "Lucky!" Yes, since time immemorial, men
          captured Lisa completely and whirled her in   words that Lisa had never heard before in   and women have had their own family roles.
          a hurricane of passion for either three or four   her address. By the way, he spoke good   She is a wife, a mother, a keeper of the
          months. The relationship ended, there were   Russian. Adem seemed to read Lisa's soul   hearth. He is the protector, the breadwinner,
          vivid memories and pregnancy. After the   like an open book. He guessed all her   the head of the family. And we are looking
          prescribed nine months, a son was born.  desires without words. He gave tenderness   for him, knowing for sure that he will help
                                             and passion.                       us survive, protect our offspring, and we
            And then everything was not like in a fairy                         admire his strength and rigidity when we
          tale, but like in a harsh reality: two part‑  And he knew how to make Lisa feel like   meet. Yes, in order to perform his role
          time jobs, sleepless nights, lack of money,   the most beautiful and most beloved woman   effectively and efficiently — to get food and
          and wandering around other people's   on Earth. And also the most desirable.  various pleasures as much as possible —
          apartments. It was really hard for three                              a man must be closed, tough, silent, and
          years. And it already seemed to Lisa that   Elizabeth thought that before, before   sometimes aggressive. And it is such a man
          God had forgotten about her. But... all bad   Adem, she had not lived at all. Love was   in the eyes of a woman who is the most real.
          things come to an end. And at a party with   gaining momentum. Happiness seemed   Do you agree/disagree? I will be glad to
          friends, a man approached Elizabeth. Every   eternal, and I really didn't want to think   talk to you about this on the magazine's
          girl's dream comes true, "a prince on a white   about the reality where there is a husband   website.
          horse". He was 45, a retired military man,   and decisions have to be made. But the
          a businessman, a handsome man. Instead   reality, as you know, is a harsh thing. At   Your psychologist,
          of a horse, it's a Mercedes, but that's for   some point, Arthur chose the time and flew   Alina Kocher
          the best. The man's name was Arthur. And it   to Alanya to see his family. And the good   Instagram: psycholog_alina_kocher

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