(November 8, 2014 at 1:29 am)whateverist Wrote: Interesting that the dedication to being open and honest can coexist with intimacy issues, isn't it. I suspect that will resolve itself for you, given how you are with people.
Part of that whole brute force thing. I really have to make a conscious effort to force myself not to be a closed book. Always boggled my mind, how I can be so extroverted and enjoy being the center of attention, but have this innate desire to be private and have a lot of alone time. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde thing. I do hope I can overcome it, but I've been this way as long as I can remember and it doesn't seem to be getting better, even with therapy. But Jaysus having a woman in my life that knows me and gets me and has the patience of Job helps a lot.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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