Posted by vwoolf on August 21, 2004, at 13:56:06
In reply to Re: What is the point of being genuine?, posted by lucy stone on August 21, 2004, at 12:31:08
I've pretended that the other face is the real one for so long, that I had almost begun to believe it was all there was. It has been an amazingly effective front - I've convinced huge audiences at international meetings, managed schools and counselling organisations, had a successful marriage - but it was all just a front to hide the wounded me.
My problem now is that, much as I would wish to be able to keep up the front, it just doesn't work anymore. Kaput. Gone. Even in the most intimate places, like my marriage, I wonder who my husband thinks he has married. Definitely not the genuine me. And that is sore. It is a very lonely place.
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