Ever thought about paying someone to be your friend?

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NT's do this all the time. They have parties. They buy big screen TVs so others come over to watch the game. They buy dinner. etc.

Maybe not paid directly. But the outcome is the same.

Never. But I can understand how in a cold-hearted society where people are kicked to the curb and trampled over that some people would resort to renting a husband, a dinner date, a sympathetic ear in the guise of a *therapist*, or investing in pseudo human companionship via virtual reality, simply because they have no social skills or the time or inclination to develop actual relationships of the authentic and lasting kind. In this kind of society there's a very thin line that's being crossed from *normal* human relating to getting a quick hormonal fix with the flip of a wrist or switch.

The closest I have ever come to rent a friend is paying for membership in a dating website or addresses in a penpal club. But technically speaking you are not paying somebody to be your friend, you are paying for information or services to a subscription organization. Whatever relationships come out of joining will depend on the individual.

Paying someone to be your friend is not quite the same as the example with NTs that you gave above. They may buy dinner, they may buy a big screen TV but they are buying elements to maintain prestige and status.

I have considered paying for a tag-a-long boyfriend!!

You can pay me to be your tag-along boyfriend.
Actually, you could probably pay a lot of guys on this site to tag-along.

No, but I'm seriously entertaining the thought of paying people to leave me alone.

BRICK
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BAAAAAAAMMM!

Actually, THAT isn't even true! A friend WON'T take money like that! I like it when someone does something for you that puts them out(American slang for it is a burden to them or they went out of their way), and they REFUSE to take your money!! !! THAT is a REAL friend!

My boss is really gung-ho about the inventory. He's told me he's actually had people offer him money to get out of their office.

ONLY if you give them preferential treatment, take advantage of them, or do something that would OTHERWISE be illegal(like commit pergury, aid and abet a crime, etc...). To just be friends, or help in a friendly manner is certainly not illegal.

There is a difference between helping in a friendly manner and being a friend personally. For a psychologist to get involved personally with a patient is considered unethical and grounds for disciplinary action by the state board. And yes sexual relations between a doctor and a patient in some states is a criminal offense.

So you are saying that it is ILLEGAL for a psychiatrist to offer free advice, or even accept a friend as a client? That EVEN if a person was having problems finding a guy and you BOTH found one another wildly attractive and hit it off, that you couldn't get married? HECK, maybe she is depressed in part because all the good guys she meets are taken!

Frankly, such a law is STUPID. GRANTED, there are a lot of stupid laws, but WOW! Now if she was a nymphomaniac, or you came on to her, or she had a problem that clouded her judgement, that WOULD be unethical and a reason, but that IS only a small part of the cases.

In Florida they simplified this.

If a licensed psychologist has ever accepted money from a person for professional services, they may never have sex with that person and continue to hold their license, so I was told in a classroom by a professor of psychology.

It seems that I've also been told by a psychologist that it is rare but not unheard of for a professional relationship, between psychologist and client, to become purely social.

maybe all those of us who want to pay someone to be our friend could get together and be friends for free

Oh! Lolz! That's the most wonderful thing I've read all day!

I think we do it on WP, and it works. It can work in real life.

Parts of it happen all over, Tostmasters, clubs, ways of developing your skills and meeting like minded people.

Being on WP has changed me, Internet social does affect the rest of my life.

The world annoyed me, I shut it out, here I tried to understand, and got some of it right, and that applies to the world.

I am pro AS, little choice there, I like the worldwide group, but with 2,000,000 in the US, there should be thousands near me.

WP needs to grow.

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