It never even dawned on me to seek help or even to see my situation as something requiring external help".
A Kurdish refugee misconstrued my journalistic interest in his situation as something more and became drunk and pushy when spurned.
Cushing, the defensive rookie of the year, flatly denied taking anything banned by the N.F.L. and painted his situation as something of a medical mystery.
Still, most parents, and even most adults, don't see dressing appropriately for a given situation as something a teenager should need to learn through experience.
"After two years, I stop paying and the boys are mine forever," Mr. Aslam said happily, presenting the situation as something as benevolent as an adoption.
"I would characterize our current situation as something I don't believe we have ever experienced before, and apparently it is not getting any better," Dr. Hsueh said.
Still, the playwright, who credits producer Robin Reinach with helping to propel "Consent" onto the stage, sees the show's look at a "messy, out-of-control sexual situation" as something not only unique, but also topical.
This is, of course, a pot-meet-kettle situation, as well as something of a self-indictment.
Unfortunately, all too often we relate to vulnerability--especially in certain environments, relationships, and situations--as something we should avoid at all costs.
But that is certainly not how it was established, and one might challenge the level of submission that is required of the wives in that situation as being something other than holy.
