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Old Mar 12, 2008, 12:49 AM
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No, I don't tell everything. Some things aren't ready to come out and will make their appearance in due time. I remember after I had been seeing T for about 7 months, I mentioned that my H hit our children and he said, "what??? why didn't you tell me this before?" It took a long time to come out about my H's abusive ways. I guess it was one of my secrets and I was embarrassed about it. All this takes trust. Trust takes time to develop.

I remember once we were sitting there quietly, and I was staring into his eyes and thinking, "wow, he really has beautiful blue eyes," and at that moment he asked, "whatcha thinking?" I did not share my thought.

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No way I could ever ask to use their phone

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Perna, that reminds me one time I forgot my cell phone and needed to call home at the beginning of a session. I asked T if I could use his phone, and he said it's unplugged (now I know why he never returns my messages), here use my cell. He handed me his cell and I saw the screen on front had a pic of his girlfriend. She is cute as a bug. Not sure I needed to know what she looked like....

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I think if I say one more thing that makes me look bad it will make her not want to see me.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">ECHOES, that sounds like an interesting topic to explore with her.
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