Man, I'm floored. Brina: given everything you have done and struggled with and fought to transform during your relationship with Ken, let me say to you that you have every right in the world to be utterly furious. The very least he could have done would have been to be upfront with you and discuss his feelings about the relationship earlier. You have devoted too much into it to not have that right.
But that's done now. And don't you dare blame yourself. Ken made a failing, not you; and that failing was that he didn't have the balls, or the respect for you, to talk to you earlier.
Betrayal in monogamous relationships is often about cowardice. It happens when people have the balls to do what they know is wrong but not the balls enough to face the action when they are about to do it, and address those they know they are going to hurt and be a man (of either gender) about it.
I know this hurts brutally. I know you feel like you've had the wind kicked out of your chest. But believe me when I say this: this reflects on Ken and his decisions, not you.
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Holy fuck.
Date: 2004-11-23 03:15 pm (UTC)Man, I'm floored. Brina: given everything you have done and struggled with and fought to transform during your relationship with Ken, let me say to you that you have every right in the world to be utterly furious. The very least he could have done would have been to be upfront with you and discuss his feelings about the relationship earlier. You have devoted too much into it to not have that right.
But that's done now. And don't you dare blame yourself. Ken made a failing, not you; and that failing was that he didn't have the balls, or the respect for you, to talk to you earlier.
Betrayal in monogamous relationships is often about cowardice. It happens when people have the balls to do what they know is wrong but not the balls enough to face the action when they are about to do it, and address those they know they are going to hurt and be a man (of either gender) about it.
I know this hurts brutally. I know you feel like you've had the wind kicked out of your chest. But believe me when I say this: this reflects on Ken and his decisions, not you.
I love you. I'm here for you.