Mercnbeth -> RE: I told my wife I our marriage was built on LIES...and it got weird (4/10/2005 10:35:42 AM)
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Try not to pile on the new guy too much here, though, these are not easy situations to navigate. quote:
With respect to the details of our personal life, I considered this a fairly anonymous method of soliciting others' comments on the situation....Forgive me if I dramatized or exagerrated things a bit. you posted on a public forum, to solicit others' comments, where people respond who may have strong opinions about and are very opposed to deception and lies being a basis for, part of or an ongoing theme in a relationship, ESPECIALLY a committed relationship such as a marriage. Not everyone here is going to condone or encourage the previous and apparently ongoing behaviors you admit to here, regardless of how dramatically or not you express them. quote:
It was deceptive, I admit that, but in my view far less deceptive than an intimate relationship with another person. It WAS an intimate relationship with another person! It was clandestine, sexually based and violating the vows you made to each other when you married and also the contract you entered into at the time of those vows. because it wasn't face to face that makes it "less" deceptive? quote:
It's easy to say "just be honest", but it's something else to lose someone you really love over a set of desires that you have deep ambivalence about yourself. so the fact that you deceive this person that you claim to love about the nature of yourself and even "conflicting" desires has no bearing on the authenticity of the relationship in the first place? it's ok to lie to someone until after they are married to you and you feel "secure" enough to expose yourself as long as that person won't dump you for not being authentic from the get-go? and if you were a convincing post-op, it would be ok to lie to someone who married you, tricking them into believing you were the opposite sex, all because you "LOVE" them? to this slave there is NO LOVE without HONESTY. you whine about being stuck with no other option than one or the other, which makes no sense to this slave. yes, it is easy to say "be honest" and it is also easy to see why honesty is a very important foundation of ANY lasting relationship. you must admit, it is hard to keep a lie going over time and therefore it would seem logically easier to just be honest in the first place and save everybody the hassle and hurt feelings mulitplied by time over your lies. quote:
Frankly, it's the fact that I have not been able to talk to anyone about it other than my wife that has probably kept me from having more perspective. that's great that you have a way of gaining perspective on your situation. however, representing yourself honestly here is far less important than honestly representing yourself, your feelings, your concerns, your desires and activities to the person you claim to love and are contractually obligated to--YOUR WIFE. there is no time like the present. confess EVERYTHING, hell, show her this thread! work with HER to improve your relationship in the future, not against her by being dishonest. If she loves you, the REAL you, she might just be willing to forgive and work with you on a MUTUALLY beneficial, loving relationship. Good Luck!!!!!!!
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