Salvage Value #1: If He Asks You to Go to A Swinger’s Club with Him, Part 1

As I mentioned before, the first concept that inspired me to create EOL at university was Salvage Value. Ahhhh, university, the sweet innocent days of calculating foreign exchange rates, life insurance payout, and strategies to out-screw your business rivals. That was a simpler time...

Salvage Value is the residual value of an obsolete asset. That seems a whole world away from the words “swinger’s club” in the title of this post (did I get your attention or what?). But there’s a connection, I promise! Here goes a story of a friend of mine:

My friend was in a relationship with this guy for a year before they broke up. Then one day, out of the blue he contacted her. They hung out, talked, reminisced about the old times, and generally had such a great time that she started wondering if he was planning to ask her back.

Then he dropped the bombshell. There was this “thing” he couldn’t stop thinking about since their break up: he’d always wanted to have a threesome with her and another guy, and wonder if she’d be interested in visiting a swinger’s club to, you know, test the waters a little. He flattered her, saying that seeing her with someone else would make her look hotter than he’d ever seen her before.

My poor friend was still desperately in love with him. She thought to herself, maybe that bit of curiosity was what prevented the relationship from going forward. Maybe he was trying to get that obsession out of the way so they could have a deep, meaningful relationship in the future. The more she thought about it, the more she convinced herself to be happy about this “progress.” He did say she’d look hotter than ever, that’s like seeing her in a whole new light, right? That’s moving forward, right?

Um, not exactly. How so? Check out Part 2 on my next post!