Hello Ladies,
Just curious how many of you out there who would be willing to marry a man who has a homosexual past but is no longer interested in tricking with men but wants a serious lifelong female companion.
Ya know, I did word this like a personal add. My apologies, Eva. I failed to mention that I dated women and had several relationships all through my twenties and one gay lover in my early thirties and countless tricks up to now. I'm bored with sucking cock and jacking off. Deep down inside I may have never been that way. When I was 12, I enticed a 16 yo neighbor to show me how to masturbate and show me what sperm looked like. At that age, the size difference was quite a lot. The excitement was like electricity through my nerves. I never could get that experience out of my mind. I carried the notion that I was too small to please a woman and feared being laughed at. Consequently a cock fetish was formed. I'm not small or huge today but a little above average at 6.75"x5.5". Women have told me I have nothing to worry about. There is also an issue of fear of rejection with me.
I'm not ugly, have been told I'm really hot actually but when I look in the mirror, I just can't see it. I always see guys that I consider so good looking and charming that I feel like I don't have a prayer. That's envy and it's ugly. I never really committed to a woman in marriage, because of the feast or famine aspect of the career I was in. I could not provide the financial security needed. I am making a career change to forensic nursing currently and will be able to offer financial security to a wife.
Mattyacht, I'd like to acknowledge the courage that it has taken for you to be willing to acknowledge and admit areas within yourself on such a public forum. You have laid yourself open to risk by allowing us to have a peak into your life and your vulnerabilities. I respect you greatly for it. Well done!
I am certainly not a woman (last time I checked, that is :biggrin1: ) but I do see a need to respond to you because you have received good responses to your question, but I think some important points to be considered have been overlooked. I hope that my words do not sound too harsh or perhaps judgemental because in truth, that isn't the place that I am coming from...but I do need to be honest with you and with it comes the risk of causing you a bit of pain which if I were able to, I'd be more than happy to avoid...but I wouldn't be helping you in the process. Please know that I am aware that I am standing on the sacred ground of your life and that I have taken off my shoes in acknowledgement of that fact.
I think that before you ask such a question to the ladies, there are key questions that you need to ask yourself. Perhaps you already have and I'm jumping to conclusions, forgive me if I have. And please, I don't need you to answer these questions for me, but you do need to give it a lot of thought and formulate answers for yourself. I can see that you are being serious and sincere in your approach so I have no doubt that you will honour yourself enough by finding your own inner truth for yourself.
The biggest question that you need to ask yourself is:
Why is important for me to enter into a heterosexual marriage (especially when looking at your preference)
? You have mentioned that you have a fear of rejection but there's also the harsh words of your mother and possibly other people in your life. Some points to consider are: Two halves cannot make a whole. A life partner or spouse cannot complete the parts of you that are in need of wholeness, only you can do it. To expect somebody to do it for you would be unfair on them because they cannot possibly give you self esteem or confidence only you are able to allow yourself to claim it as part of your inner reality. Only you are able to bring healing to yourself. Any other approach will lead to a lot of disappointment and heartache. You also cannot allow others to decide what you inner truth is for you. You are you, you are the best you that you can be and in the midst of it all, you are a unique, sacred and unrepeatable gift to all of humanity. By sacrificing yourself for the sake of making others happy, you will be sacrificing your own happiness as well. In my opinion it is too high a price to pay, regardless of what role that person plays in your life.
The other point to consider is that you are able to have a deep, committed, long term relationship...with another man. You do not need to sacrifice your inner truth for the sake of your inner desires, it is possible to attain both, however I need to point out that the question and the points of reflection still need to be taken into account.
I know of women that have been willing to marry men that have been willing to marry them despite their homosexual past. I have also seen such marriages work, the thing though is, even though the marriages may be working, how happy are they in their marriages? How happy and fulfilled will you be in such a set up? You have spoken about being able to give a woman financial security, but what about emotional security, mental security and sexual security? Will parts of you have checked out from such a relationship?
The other point of consideration is: To what extent are you willing to give up sexual relationships with men? This is a very important question to ask and it may be the one that may take you the longest to be able to answer to yourself with complete honesty. It's easy to say "I don't need to have sex with a man" the issue though is your inner reality may be screaming out "yes I do!" whilst you answer that. Living a fractured life will only lead to heartache. If you happen to be married and "slip up" with another man, though you cannot bear the blame for the "slip up" you will however be accountable for the effect that cheating on your wife will have on her...because you'd made an uninformed decision without taking the repercussions into account (by uninformed decision, I am speaking about going ahead with getting married despite you not really having "peace" within your complete reality. How will you handle your sexual urges? Most importantly, how will you cope with possibly meeting a man one day and wanting (almost to the point of needing) to make love with him?
If your have already dealt with these issues and you are still at the point of wanting a heterosexual marriage, then the only advice that I can offer you if you'd like your marriage to work (let alone to want your marriage to take place) and I think that this is key:
Trust. You need to leave no stone unturned for the sake of trust within your relationship. You need to bear in mind that your partner will have taken a huge risk to be willing to marry you and that risk needs to be honored all day, every day. The best way to honor it would be through trust. You need to make it possible for her to trust you. You need to allow her risk to set a standard for you - in the sense of never wanting to fail her trust.
This level of trust can only be reached through a lot of openness and honesty...on all levels and in every way. Admittedly, doing so opens you up to the risk of losing her, however there are women out there with a high calibre, that not only deserve the truth painful as it may be, but have the inner mechanisms that enable them to sift through it all and find ways to cope with it constructively. Openness and honesty leads to trust which leads to a true sense of security. It doesn't happen overnight so I wouldn't encourage you to jump into marriage overnight, allow it to take time, allow yourself to build a strong and firm foundation stone - it will help lead you to your partner, most especially during times of "temptation".