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"  Dear E. Jean:  I was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I find it difficult to have sex with my boyfriend because I don&amp;#039;t feel well and I&amp;#039;m on a lot of medication. I&amp;#039;m also experiencing severe financial problems including foreclosure, as I&amp;#039;m unable to work full-time until my health improves. I&amp;#039;ve told my boyfriend this. But he says he doesn&amp;#039;t want to leave me, because he&amp;#039;s worried about me &amp;quot;being alone.&amp;quot; However, he says he has &amp;quot;physical needs&amp;quot; and wants to have sex with other women\u2014with my permission. I am very uncomfortable with him making love to other women while he still lives under my roof! Am I being a prude?\u2014Really Hurting  Hurting, hunny: Your letter crashed straight into my heart. Before I answer your question about giving your cad of a boyfriend &amp;quot;permission&amp;quot; (does he help pay the mortgage?), I also want to shout: Lyme disease mimics multiple sclerosis. I&amp;#039;m not a doctor, but I&amp;#039;ve been pulverized by Lyme, and I advise you to instantly see a specialist!\u2014Ravishing Regards, E. Jean  Dear E. Jean:  Wow, you were so right about MS and Lyme! I was diagnosed with MS by a neurologist who discovered the telltale white lesions in my brain. &amp;quot;You have MS,&amp;quot; he said. Luckily, I was allergic to Copaxone and could not continue the treatment. My MD here in Santa Fe ordered exhaustive tests, and lo and behold I have Lyme disease. She believes I may have had it since childhood. I&amp;#039;m now on an antibiotic cocktail of five different medicines and getting better. About my boyfriend: No, he does not pay any of the mortgage. And thank you for asking about me. I felt so alone.\u2014Hurting Less My dear sister, Lymey:  We are making progress! Tell your boyfriend he may not boff another woman while he abideth in your abode. Also tell him, from me, you&amp;#039;ll soon be back to your old saucy self and will be getting a new man if he brings up the subject of his &amp;quot;physical needs&amp;quot; again!  Though this may be a daunting suggestion, if (when you&amp;#039;re feeling rested and enjoying a brief respite from the intolerable pain) you can create physically less taxing ways of igniting your lover and yourself with surges of pleasure, it will lift your spirits. But never, never, never permit a man to Edwardsize you (as in John Thinks-With-His-Peen Edwards).\u2014Signing Off, E. Jean E-mail your questions to e.jean@askejean.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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