Do you think someone would pay you for sex?

[Cyberman]

That's an amazing story, thank you

I can always tell from your words just how much you love her.

Thank you. There will never be another Sam:

[robvalue]

She is lovely

I don't know how you find the strength to carry on, you're doing amazing. Sam would be proud I'm sure. I'd fall to pieces if I lost Emma.

[ignoramus]

I pray that I die before Pam.
If she ever goes, I'd be completely lost and useless ... and completely alone in this world.

[Cyberman]

We actually had that discussion back in the day. I figured that since I was nine years older than Sam, plus statistically women live longer than men anyway, there would come a day when she'd be on her own. So I explained that I would want her to find someone to make her happy after I'm gone. Of course she said she never would. But then she turned it round and said the same thing to me, and of course I said I couldn't do it. Obviously, neither of us ever imagined this.

[robvalue]

That's very selfless of both of you. Do you think you ever could, sometime in the future?

[Cyberman]

I can't really answer that with any honesty. I simply don't know. In time, perhaps I might. Assuming I don't leave it too late. I mean, I don't want to be queuing for my pension before it happens. Right at the moment, all I'm craving is companionship, a little affection. A little adventure. Maybe wake up next to someone who only knows me as 'what the fuck was I thinking last night?' You know, a bit of taking care of my needs until I can feel ready to get back on the field. But I fear that a full-on relationship is going to seem like a pale imitation, and that wouldn't be fair on ms A N Other; or on me.

Still, I'm always ready to be convinced.

[robvalue]

That sounds like a sensible attitude

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't know how you find the strength to carry on, you're doing amazing. Sam would be proud I'm sure. I'd fall to pieces if I lost Emma.

This. Make her proud, Stim. I know she'd want you to be happy. I know it must be easier said than done though But just the trying, effort and persistence I am sure she would be proud of

[downbeatplumb]

I can't really answer that with any honesty. I simply don't know. In time, perhaps I might. Assuming I don't leave it too late. I mean, I don't want to be queuing for my pension before it happens. Right at the moment, all I'm craving is companionship, a little affection. A little adventure. Maybe wake up next to someone who only knows me as 'what the fuck was I thinking last night?' You know, a bit of taking care of my needs until I can feel ready to get back on the field. But I fear that a full-on relationship is going to seem like a pale imitation, and that wouldn't be fair on ms A N Other; or on me.

Still, I'm always ready to be convinced.

My dad got re-married in his seventies. He moved in with the new lady just a few months after mum passed which was odd.

[Cyberman]

Well, I was in a sexual and intimacy famine from my adolescence right up to meeting Sam when I was 31 and she was coming up to 22. That's a very long time. I simply cannot face going through all that again. Especially now I know what I'm missing.

(Incidentally, she was 31 when I lost her; I've had a hangup about that number ever since. That's not the only numerical coincidence, but I'll come over as deeply tinfoil if I get into them.)