Guidance Our contrast today is between sincerely caring and playing a role due to self-interest. At some point, your fling jells into real attachment: "When I liberate from the role of romance, I am uninhibited and sincere. Being devoted releases us from the strictures of going through the motions of a love relationship." We talk about bribing children to behave, being the brat who mooches his way back to mama's house, and being the abused child. We have a devil-may-care playboy...