marieToo
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Joined: 5/21/2006 From: Jersey Status: offline
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I had a similar situation recently with a guy who, after a very brief email exchange demanded my photo without sharing his, in order to prove "my trust for him". When I turned him down, I was accused of not being real. Turns out he was married. I prefer to talk with someone a few times in email, then if I determine we have something in common, I offer my photo, IF he hasn't demanded it of me, and if I've either seen his on his profile, or he's sent me one or two in reciprocation. After that, I have no problem sharing my outside chat name so that I can continue to get to know him better. If the talking has gone well and I'm still interested, I'll call someone or let them call me, usually I use my cell at first, then use my house number if my instincts tell me the guy isn't a psycho. If after a reasonable period of time, and after having met them, they still are withholding information like their last name, town they live in, or their profession, it usually means that they're fucking around behind a spouse's back or they are trying to protect their career. Either way, it's something that's eventually going to corrupt the entire relationship, because if you don't have trust and honesty, you don't have anything real, as far as I'm concerned. If you can't trust the person that you're cultivating a relationship with, then you're operating under complete dysfunction and you have no business even being there. And if you can't gradually and mutally begin to trust a person that you're getting to know, you're either paranoid or planning to be dishonorable. Non-trustworthy people never trust the person they plan to fuck over. So I would take this as a red flag. Everyone takes some risk in this, no matter where you connect; ie online, at a munch, at a bar, whatever, but at some point you have to take a chance. If there's something in your life that keeps you from taking that chance, then you have a choice to make. Either run with the big dogs and take the same risk as everyone else, or don't leave the porch. I don't believe in one-way trust, not even in a relationship that may be based on inequality such as Ds. Fortunately, the only worry I have is whether or not the person feels safe to me. I don't have a fancy career to protect nor do I have a vanilla spouse I'm cheating on, and my family already knows I'm sick and twisted, so I really don't have to worry about being outted. It's nice to have the freedom to live on your own terms. But unfortunately, bdsm can ruin a career or a marriage. And living one's entire life as a fraud constantly looking over one's shoulder must be a pretty high price to pay to get your kink on. I can almost sympathize with it, but expecting others to accomodate that is utter bullshit.
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marie. I give good agita.
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