11/27/11
I want TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEAK MY MIND. I want to feel
honored for my thoughts and feelings. I
want to be respected at work and in society.
I want to know that my sexuality is not dirty and meant to be used
against me. I want to be strong. I want to have the courage to stand up for
myself and trust my intuitions. I want
to say “No” even when it is hard. I want
to find a way to be myself in this world, as a woman, a writer, a mother, and a
sexual being. I want to be free of sexual and emotional abuse. I want to be a healthy role model for my
daughter. I want her to know that her
body is beautiful and that sexual pleasure is not dirty. I want her to know about safe sex and have
the courage to say “No” to men if she doesn’t want to sleep with them. I want to support other women in their
struggles to freedom and womanhood.
Fuck equality. Men and
women are not equal—what does that even mean?
Men and women are different, and have much to learn from one
another. I want to learn to love and
respect other women and not simply be jealous of them, which just perpetuates
the cycle of female hatred and oppression.
I want to believe in myself, and trust that I will be okay, no matter
who does or does not love me. I want to
stand on my own two feet, trust myself, and follow through on the things that I
want and believe. I want to make choices
that are empowering in my job, personal life, and sexuality. I want to choose my relationships, and when
to have children.
I want to live a life where I feel that I am doing more than
just going through the motions. I want
to make healthy choices and take care of myself and my body, even though it
seems so much easier to take care of others.
I want to live a life that engages me deeply, both in and out of
work. I want to do something that I care
about. I want to make changes in my
life, and in the world. Grandiose, I
know. But what is the point of being
alive if we just exist and then die?
Shouldn’t we do something while we’re here? I really don’t know the answer to that
one. Sometimes I think that I push
myself too hard to be something in the future, and I miss what is right in
front of me. Sometimes it is better to
just simply and fully be in the present, rather than trying to be something
profound in the future.
I want to learn to let go of the belief that something is
wrong with me and that bad things are my fault.
I want to see myself as strong and beautiful, even though I am not
perfect. I want to educate myself and my
daughter about ways to be active in the community and connect with other
women. I feel safe with women.
I do not feel safe with men because it all feels about
sex. Either they want you, or they
don’t, and the first can lead to rape and abuse, and the second to
abandonment. And I am afraid to be
without a man. I used to like being
single. It was lonely, but I could do
what I liked all the time. And there was
the allure of new relationships. I love
(d?) NRE. I was addicted to the
attention and the hormone rush. I
suppose it is because I never felt beautiful unless someone else told me I
was.
So there’s the exciting beginning of the relationship, and
then the guy is either a clingy freak because he is loser (but on the upside,
he wants to keep you because you’re the best he’s ever had), or he is actually
a really decent guy, and then you just begin the process of becoming bored and
losing interest in one another. Then you
just have the same kind of sex, fantasize about other people, and so it
goes. It’s more friendship at that point. I don’t know—is that super cynical of
me? I think that people need each other,
especially when trying to raise children, but romantically and sexually, things
die out pretty quickly. And that scares
me. I feel like that destroys the fabric
of traditional relationships
I used to be so jealous, because I knew that my boyfriends
were looking at other girls, and thinking about them when they fucked me. It felt like it was because I wasn’t good
enough. Now I know that biologically,
everyone does this at some point or another, and it wasn’t personal. It just still hurt. And I would get bored too. The sex would get routine, and I’d have to
fantasize to be able to have an orgasm.
So in a way, that’s what brought me to polyamory. The idea that you could be into multiple
people—well, we all know it’s true (I think fantasies and affairs illustrate
this)—was nothing new.
I was just tired of it being this dirty, unspoken secret,
where you felt dirty for wanting someone, or worse, had an affair. So I wanted to confront it in the open, and
see if there was a way to share, to learn about myself. I also thought it was stupid to just abandon
people you care about because the sex is no longer hot. What if you could have different
relationships with other people, and what if these relationships fulfilled
different needs and made the other relationships easier? Now my boyfriend can just be himself, and
doesn’t have to bear the responsibility of meeting all my needs.
At this point, we don’t actually have other partners, so I am
learning to simply embrace this mentality, regardless of real partner
actuality. I am learning to let go, and
let things be as they are. If we have
sex, great, if not, okay. I just need to
learn to love myself without the approval of others, and then it won’t matter
what others think, or whether or not I am successful. It might be harder to make ends meet, and I
might have to make other choices that are difficult, but maybe then I won’t
feel as though my life is at the mercy of others—particularly men.
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