It's a long time since I was around premies - one of the things that upset me most in confronting what Rawatism was about wasn't all the money and the rewriting of history it was the sheer scale of duplicity that seemed to afflict premies at every level - and you can't have a relationship without trust.

In addition to trust,  I think intimate relationships require a capacity for vulnerability - and my take on premiedom is that at a very basic level most longtime premies seek invulnerability from their involvement with Rawat. It's the antithesis to being in a relationship - it's a kind of induced autism - how could any marriage surive on that basis ?

Nik