[I’ve had a strange week. I bought some wine Tuesday, finished in Wednesday night, and wrote this while under the influence. It’s long, rambling, but it’s also a good dose of in vino veritas.]
This year of mine will require tremendous courage and a willingness to fail on my part, because I’ll need to push through a whole lot of existential and emotional roadblocks that have always kept me from a few places I’ve needed to be.
It’s not like I’m not a confident person. I am. I’ve got a great personality. I can sell anything, argue anyone. I’m smart as hell. I like my writing. I’m funny. I’m kind. I’m generous. I’m creative. I’m dogged. I may even be invincible. I know these things. I know these things.
The trouble is believing them. Because I wasn’t always this way, and, before that, I wasn’t always that way. Continue reading
Tag Archives: faking it
Why women sometimes fake orgasm
Because you won’t listen to us
when we say it’s not going to happen for us.
when we say it’s not going to happen for us.
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Because you don’t believe us
when we say it’s fine for you to come without us.
when we say it’s fine for you to come without us.
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Because we don’t want to hurt your feelings
those times you’re trying so hard to please us.
those times you’re trying so hard to please us.
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Because you usually can’t tell.
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Because we feel like failures when we can’t.