Clarisa's Boyfriend On Silent Witness

[dave50]

Is it realistic?

[gness]

Is what realistic, Dave?

[donny48]

Not boyfriend but husband.

[hc4361]

Why not? She's a feisty, intelligent lady and has a great sense of humour.

[ummmm]

Yeah, why not?

[bednobs]

i don't really understand the question. Are you asking if it's realistic that disabled people are people with emotions and feelings and 'normal' relationships etc?

[donny48]

I would assume Dave means it would be unlikely because of her physical condition. The woman is supposed to have a brilliant mind and so has her husband, there can be attraction and love not based on the physical but on the mind.

[ummmm]

Like Donny says, many many relationships start with the basis of admiration and mutual respect.

[bednobs]

hmm so you're sort of saying "she may be a cripple, but it's ok for someone to love her because she's brilliant and intelligent" donny?

[donny48]

Bednobs , I have re-read my post and I cannot see how you leap to that assumption. In the program the characters are as I mentioned. I find your assumption almost offensive.

[gness]

Goodness me, Bednobs.....what a horrid post. Your strange interpretation is not what Donny posted at all.

[ummmm]

Gosh...I didn't read it like that.

[bednobs]

glad to have only almost offended you donny, not actually offended you.

[aelmpvw]

dave50 appears to have lit the blue touchpaper and retired

[hc4361]

Liz Carr, who plays Clarisa, is married in real life. She's a great comedian and campaigner and I was pleased to see she can act, too. I really like her characted in Silent Witness and her relationship with Jack

[donny48]

Your behavior I find childish so shall we end this chat between us ?

[donny48]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ last post was for bednobs.

[gness]

Ooooo.....I think we twigged that, Donny......☺

[EcclesCake]

Reading between the lines of Donny's post I felt it implied that there may be no physical relationship just a cerebral one.

I can see where Bednobs is coming from.

[donny48]

Eccles, A civil answer civil answer from bednobs would have started with "Do you mean " and not leap to assumptions and the reading between lines. I think my original post was intended to and actually did convey my thought that physical differences should not make a difference to being attracted to one another or to love. I find it tedious when one has to check every possible nuance or interpretation that a sentence might contain, try hard enough and one can find something to complain about.

[gness]

No.....if Dave is questioning the possibility of a relationship because of Clarisa's condition then Donny answered quite appropriately.

A brilliant and funny person with an engaging mind can be very attractive and that can lead to a sexual relationship for any of us.

Perhaps Dave will return and clarify.

To begin a post with...."so you're sort of saying".....is deliberately putting another slant on it.......for whatever reason.....beyond me though...