What a strange assortment of ads this notice brings up in gmail. "Why mommy is a democrat" and "Healing relationships" and "He doesn't love me"...
Financial hardship, of course, goes without saying. Nearly everyone who doesn't have wealthy parents has to work through that. Being bullied in school, even in college, hardly counts either. Having my heart set on becoming a priest and being unceremoniously dumped out of seminary, though... That one really hurt.
Getting married only to have my wife decide to push me into the gay liberation movement and start matchmaking for me... then leave me when I was heartbroken over the guy she literally threw into bed with me... that hurt even more.
So... move to another state, try to be "gay" and find out I have no sense for it and can't make that work either because I can't read the signals and don't know how to communicate...
Well, you get the picture. Until about age 35 I was always an outsider looking in.
I still am, but I've managed to build myself a decent hut out here now.
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Date: 2007-11-20 10:04 pm (UTC)Financial hardship, of course, goes without saying. Nearly everyone who doesn't have wealthy parents has to work through that. Being bullied in school, even in college, hardly counts either. Having my heart set on becoming a priest and being unceremoniously dumped out of seminary, though... That one really hurt.
Getting married only to have my wife decide to push me into the gay liberation movement and start matchmaking for me... then leave me when I was heartbroken over the guy she literally threw into bed with me... that hurt even more.
So... move to another state, try to be "gay" and find out I have no sense for it and can't make that work either because I can't read the signals and don't know how to communicate...
Well, you get the picture. Until about age 35 I was always an outsider looking in.
I still am, but I've managed to build myself a decent hut out here now.