I must preface this reply because I'm really not trying to be an asshole here. I'm not advocating an agenda, but I am interested in how you're managing this.
How does your partner feel about you seeing other SPs, especially when she helping to support you financially? I have to presume that you are still an active client, or maybe that you're on hiatus with the intention of going back into the hobby. I mean, why else would you be active on this board, right?
No, I don't see SPs anymore. Intentions on seeing another SP? Maybe, probably not. I haven't seen any or had the urge to. I check the boards because of habit and I reply a few messages once in awhile. Sometimes when I'm feeling extra paranoid I check up on the boards to see if there's reviews, but I directly feel like shit after.
I realized my biggest problem in seeing SPs was that it was easy. I pay, deed happens and that's it. An easy source of excitement, entertainment and relief from my outside life. Relationships take time, effort, communication and dedication. Everything but easy.
It was the roughest in the beginning where the mystery and lies were rampant. I was pissed, angry and resentful randomly. After the lies slowly unravelled, I understood why she is in this position and why she can't just up and quit "if she loved me enough."
To go forward, there's no room for wishful thinking of "maybe she'll quit because she loves me." "I hope that she doesn't leave me for someone else." These thoughts still happen every so often because I am still a person and emotions happen, but the reality is that we're both there for each other when shit hits the fan. Majority of my doubts were dispelled when I got covid. She came over right away, she got covid from me because of it and we spent the whole 2 weeks together in quarantine.
I go to therapy weekly to sort my thoughts out. I am still weak sometimes. My moral compass is broken and it bothers me everytime I drive around and see something related to sex work or a shady spa (which is somehow on every fucking block in this city). It sucks, but I'm taking it as an opportunity to understand myself and what I really want in life. It's by no means a normal relationship, but it's our relationship right now and we're trying to make it work.
I need to first and foremost work on myself and build myself into someone who I can look up to, not depend on her for some type of superficial validation for my ego.