Nympho-maybe

Client 'Mary' is a young, reasonably attractive female. For whatever reason, she in constitutionally incapable of refusing a sexual advance (or so it seems). We have worked on her situation to the point that she has sloughed off the people that only hung around her in order to have sex with her, or at least have her at the ready when they wanted to have sex. She was recently diagnosed with chlamydia, which she recieved from one of her partners who was/is in a 'committed' relationship. She has stopped engaging in sexual activity for a couple of weeks now, or at least that is what she tells me. She's finished her medication for chlamydia, and is once again in good health.

I had her outline some of the goals that she wanted to accomplish in her life. Her first is to stop "being a slut" as she put it. The second was to find a 'better' job than the factory position she holds now. And the third was to go back to school. She's already gotten one of those 'career certificates' from some overpriced, private institution, but she says she wants a "real" degree like I have.

I'm afraid for her because she's never really examined her life in this way before. She's never set any realistic goals and tried to acheive them. Up until these past few weeks, she was the type of person that just sort of 'let' things happen to her. She wasn't an active participant in her own existence. I find this rather peculiar, but I'm certain there are plenty of other people that do the same thing.

I'll be keeping a careful eye on her, of course. I don't want her to go back to her old lifestyle if that doesn't make her happy. From a personal standpoint, I think this is the way to go. I would love for her to find a decent guy that's really interested in the less physical contributions she can make to his life and the relationship as a whole. But, it'll be just my luck that after seeing her into this new mode of living, she'll be hit with another huge obstacle like domestic violence. *Sigh* Why me?