The Wrong Path
Hello There,
I just found your blog two days ago
while surfing the net for some good porn. Although your blog wasn't
exactly what I was looking for, I read a little and I must say, your
blog is pretty awesome! I guess what I admire most is how well you have
lived as a closeted man. Its quite admirable really.
I just had some questions if you don't mind . I'm
currently 23 years old. I
think I'm a closeted individual too but..i want to have a life just like
yours. I'm not sure if you have mentioned it in your blog, but I would
like to know how you met your wife and how you started a perfect life
with kids if you don't mind sharing. I am not sure if I will ever be
physically attracted to girls but I do feel I can and will undoubtedly
get attached to them emotionally. I want to marry and have kids and I
am afraid to admit I like men not for my own safety but I do not wish to
disappoint those around me.
Would you kindly tell me how you started this life
of yours? One which I admire and wish for myself? Thank you, have a good
evening!
Warmest Wishes,
A Curious Reader
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Despite how it may seem, my life is not perfect and it's certainly nothing to be admired. If you read my blog, you know that I don't look at myself as someone who is doing the right thing..but only the least intrusive thing. Anyway, you want my history -- so here it is:
I met my wife while in Graduate school. We met through a friend and we hit it off almost immediately. She often traveled to me to visit while I was away, and having her there during a very stressful time of studying was just the elixir that I needed. At that point in my life, I had very little gay/bi - men on men experience other than a buddy that I hooked up with in my Freshman year in college. But having a steady girlfriend was great..and we always got along really well.
After I graduated and returned home, we continued dating until we got engaged. I couldn't really tell you when exactly I began messing with guys more often..or how it progressed..because that was quite some time (and many men) ago. I do remember that I began getting more intrigued and using the sex-chat phone lines and discovering the gay internet sites (does anyone remember BBS-es?).
Eventually, I started hooking up with other men....often, in the beginning, just for jerking off, or on occasion, allowing men to blow me. After each time, I would feel guilty..and I'd come home..sometimes with flowers..promising to myself that I would never, ever do such a thing again. Those promises went broken time and time again. Soon, the guilt would go away too.
I eventually graduated to blowing the guys I met with and after a long time, finally started fucking guys.
Sounds great, huh? Well, I could tell you from the bottom of my heart that if I could change it..I would. I'd change the marriage part..yea..for sure. I would have tried to experiment more before I got married..to make sure it was what I wanted prior to making the commitment. I'd change the fact that I brought kids into this world..great kids..who don't deserve a father who - unbeknownst to them - has betrayed and continues to their family trust and bond. I'd change almost everything. If I could..I'd take the pill..the antidote (if there was one) to me being attracted to men.
Why would anyone admire what I do? I don't expect admiration nor do I want it. Why anyone would want to marry someone just to satisfy others is crazy.
Following the path of least resistance, will not make anyone happy..least of all you.













11 comments:
@ACuriousReader I'd follow BLM's advise.
You mention: "I do feel I can and will undoubtedly get attached to them (girls) emotionally."
I read this as you can't get attached to men emotionally, and you can. You really can. Your lack of physical attraction to girls sounds to like you'll never be happy with a girl because you'll only get a part of a relationship, why not get the whole thing?
You said, "I want to marry and have kids and I am afraid to admit I like men not for my own safety but I do not wish to disappoint those around me."
Disappointment is a part of life, and your family, friends, or whoever you may come out to, will understand that. Don't live your life for someone else; when they're gone, then what? You should only have to live for yourself, and being 23 most likely means no wife and children or anyone you seriously have to support financially. Out of your entire life, this should be the perfect time to admit your sexuality to yourself, whether it's homosexuality, bisexuality, and probably not heterosexuality if you found BLM's blog.
Then again, if you accept your desires as your desires and come out, maybe, you'll find you'd have disappointed no one because they'll have accepted you exactly as you are.
I think that chance is worth taking; life on your own terms.
To Curious Reader:
When I got married at 23, I felt the same way you do now. Being married to someone you love and having kids - it's the perfect life.
Well, no, it isn't.
What no one could have explained to me then was that love is not enough for a happy marriage. That idea conflicts with all the fairy-tale movies and books that pop culture bombards us with from the very earliest ages, so it might seem ridiculous, but it's true. I know this not only from my own personal experience but also from the experience of a multitude of men and women who have been in "mixed orientation" marriages.
If a marriage is not built on a foundation of love AND genuine sexual desire, then it is no different than marrying a relative or a best friend. You can have a good relationship and share happy times together but BOTH of you will have an unfulfilled emptiness and it will eat at you and the marriage. Slowly, over time, the emptiness will corrupt your relationship and will turn love into resentment and possibly even bitterness.
What you're wishing for Curious Reader, is a half-empty life of guilt and regret. As Bi Like Me has said himself, that is nothing to admire.
Thanks again for your honesty. I, too, am married and bisexual. I also went through the self-loathing for cheating on my wife with guys, but I, too, find I can't give it up. I'm attracted to whom I'm attracted. I still love my wife and have no desire for a life with another man, but I still desire physical intimacy with men. Please continue writing - it helps me more than you know.
BLM: This is the best advice you have ever offered a bi-confused guy.
For all of you guys still trying to find a path for your conflict sexual desires, learn from others' hard earned experience -- rather than repeating the mistakes of others.
That's the best value BLM's site provides. It's more a cautionary tale of what not to do rather than a script to emulate.
After reading the advise (good advise I must ad), I'm comparing the attraction to men almost like a drug addiction. It's like, after tasting the forbidden fruit the first time, we were hooked. Just like a heroin addict becomes addicted after the initial high. Always chasing that first high but finding the quest insatiable. Does this make sense to anyone else?
it makes sense ...
But at least I must say that I never fell in love with a man - like BLM did.
I also never had escapes with other men in hotels sharing hot nights.
I was most of the time with the family enjoying the kids growing up.
But - and that is vey important- one important ingredient is missing if there is no sexual attraction any more.
Please consider if you want to go through this inferno- feeling guilty of not offering the sex life your partner deserves.
Seeing the marriage going downhill.
The first 10 yrs were alright I could have sex with men - once a month ... and still enjoy sex with my wife.
So initially I felt guilty but as we practised safe sex - this feeling disappeared.
Right now I am not sleeping with my wife any more and sex with men gets more frequent.
So give it more than one thought if you want to end up like this.
I would take the famous pill to erase my desire for men-it would make life so much easier.
But I have com to peace with myself- I accept me and love me.
A long road to travel and I really do not know what type of advice to give to a young reader as I do not know how my life would be without kids.
Homosexual world is so promiscous - another thing that puts me off-but why not look for Mr.Right instead of Mrs.Right.
All the best for your decision and BLM go on writing this intriguing blog
un abrazo
What did you go to graduate school for?
BLM hit the nail on the head. Don't get married. Find someone to love. His life, nor mine, is very healthy, being married to a woman and gay/bi.
DON"T DO IT.
Maybe it's me, but I get the sense that this is another one of those questionably authentic posts. I can't believe that anyone's as naive as this to ask these questions, or make those statements. It's either that, or we're taking it the wrong way, and it's meant as sarcasm.
Whatever it is, I agree with the advice; don't get married. Another thing to consider is today's 23 is yesterday's 14, at least in many cases. Who ever this is, they should figure out who and what they are before they start making life long decisions. Get a job, go support yourself, and live as an adult and see what it's like.
best advice ever.
I'm 22, so what I say could be all BS since I don't have the life long experience like you guys do.
But, how many straight couples still enjoy sex with each other after they are married for like 20-30 years? I would think the most passionate love turns into a companionate love after years of marriage.
Also, how many gay (male) couples manage to keep monogamous relationship for years? I don't think there are that many.
So life like BLM's doesn't seem too bad for bi/gay guys since at least you get to have an awesome family (kids).
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