Life of lies - sounds like 99.98 percent of the human beings I have met on earth.
Its not that you are blind, but that you are way to young to become that cynical as to have lost all faith in human-kind... yet (oh that day is coming sooner than you will like to have it happen). Wait until you are half my age, then we can talk "truths' and what your chances of a life-time long relationship with an honest to goodness really honest fella who isn't lying around half of the time.
But hell, let me land a few nasty blows to your already shell shocked mind. Please, I do so love comforting the young uns and telling them what lies ahead in their future.... old age has few real privileges....
Most - not all, but most, LGBT suffer some sort of mental/emotional affliction because LGBT are the most loathed and hated group of the species called humanity. As such, we have the highest suicides, depression, anxiety, liars, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc. shit on a person enough times, treat them with less respect than a worm eventually they break.... Often than not right out from the gate when they are real young, so they will be seriously broken for the rest of their life.
Just because you can sit there are say you are not a liar (wink wink) doesn't mean you don't come with your own special blend of fruits and nuts in your brand of fruitcake. I think that would be the best topic ever, having everyone tell each other what the ingredients are of each other;s fruitcakes, just so we know what it is we really have to offer to a life partner. Hell, knowing is half the battle.
To make this seem even more horrific, eventually it will dawn on you that its not so much that you will be married to some really crazy dude that is insane, but that you will find yourself listing the types of insanity you will accept in your partner that is really insane about the situation. Wait, I just confused myself... Rabbit hole Dawling, Rabbit hole... But the day will come where you will accept "we all go a little mad sometimes, most of us madder more than just some of the time.
I have a few short rules that I take and throw away when I date fellas... No lying, no cheating, no abuse.... Well there is one that still doesn't fly - the whole beating thing. Emotional abuse is ok, verbal abuse negotiable, as long as we give it alternating weekends off.... Cheat on me, permission preffered because I pretty much understand that when it comes to monogamy in my relationships, I'm the only one being monogamus. Lying - yeah sure, tell me a lie when ever you feel like - but to be honest tell me enough and I will lie right at cha. Scary part, I learned how to lie by a professional, bon-e-fied Psychopath... Yeah I roll with the big boys...
Life is about compromises and adaptation to situations... the cool part is due to that thinking logical part of your brain that may (or may not, I don't know your fruitcake ingredients) not be floating in a sea of alcohol thus still able to choose which situations you will adapt to, make compromise on, etc.
Those people who chisel deep lines in bed-rock reach their middle years in a state we call "single forever" Those who just draw lines in sand, and are able to compromise, renegotiate as life learns them new things end up like me, in yet one more somewhat long term relationship, and if my health fails as fast as my doctors say it will, I might actually be with the man who I will spend the rest of my life with!!!!
No this is this all important choice you have. you can either:
A. Not chisel your lines in bedrock, thus not become that lurky, creepy old guy who is lonely and wants to take a guy home (for love we presume, but we don't know your ingredients, do we?)
B. Chisel those lines and not be willing to take one step back, then you become "forever lonely" and run the greater risk of being that creepy old guy that takes guys home, to meet the other guys buried under his home.
Understand I'm not saying you picked a real winner, but damned if I was single I would ask you to throw him to me because I just
love project partners...
no what I'm really saying is yeah, you dealt a really bad card here, but don't give up on meeting a non-mass-murdering, homicidal, physical abuser. I'm pretty certain you will meet that nice, depressed, half truth telling alcoholic who will do you decent, when he is sober enough to recall your name.
This guy, well there is that saying of plenty of fish in the sea (not so true, most of the fish have been fished out of the oceans, and we all know that all of the nice guys where taken by God when they were babies so they wouldn't have to remain here and suffer like the rest of us.. so there are things still in the sea... you just have to fish a little more and decide if two headed trout is ok, or if radioactive Cod is more tasty than Mercury Lobster... We are all toxic down here.
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