Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: stella41b You've been cheated on by your partner. What causes you the most pain? Betrayal of trust? Sexual infidelity? Deception? What would be the most hurtful or painful aspect of someone cheating on you? I have never cheated on a partner, but I have left a marriage, why, because I could not take the distrust and suggestions that I was playing away any more. But now I am away, I now understand, I am secretive, it is part of my nature, and I had an insecure wife whose previous marriage was one based upon deceipt and mistrust, my nature of being secretive amplified the mistrust. I will not now blame my wife because I understand, but I was not aware how damaging my secretive nature was. I was possibly extraordinarily secretive, because at that time, my kinky desires fell on stony ground and I was not that happy with myself. I can still be secretive, but thanks to an understanding and fantastic friend, I have learned so much that I am now very open with everything, if asked, I hide nothing, that is unless I am planning a sneaky gift or experience, in which case I will construct a means of gaining tension and wonder, before it happens. Possibly childish, but I enjoy it, the fun is the wonder, not the end result. The most hurtful thing if a partner cheated, well that was having it rubbed in your face, the partner revealing the action with malicious intent. Now, I am the sort of guy that understands that if things go extra marital with a partner, there is a reason. I don't get angry and start lobbing about violence, but I see what happened as a natural progression from something that has gone wrong, perhaps something I was not aware of. That being, if the partner repents their action, I forgive, but then start making inroads to what caused the deviation, and there rectify it. The biggest most effective way of avoided problems within relationships, is to communicate with complete honesty and understanding, we must not forget, no matter how well we think we know someone, they are an individual with a different way of thinking. Communication and it's understanding is always open to interpretation as we all understand things differently, often words are not enough.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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