CallaFirestormBW
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ORIGINAL: agirl Not everyone is disatisfied with keeping their lives in compartments. It's easy for me to be open because I don't have much cost attached to it , but other people do have, be it personal, emotional or practical. Their call. agirl I would agree with you. There are many people who compartmentalize their lives and who are VERY happy. However, what the OP is talking about isn't compartmentalizing -- it is hiding... which is, in essence, lying by omission, and I have real issues with the idea of "compartmentalizing" being used as an excuse to lie by omission. It's one thing if one is in a romantic relationship, and wants to participate in, say, an authority-exchange relationship that isn't really -romantic-... and compartmentalizes the two parts, but is honest with both the romantic partner(s) AND the authority-exchange partner(s)... but to me, deceit is a destroyer of the self first, and then the relationships that one is involved in. In 2 decades of providing counseling, I have -yet- to see a relationship flourish where deceit (either active or passive) was involved. Calla
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