Saturday, July 28, 2012

Day 14: The Husband


Having been twice-married, I have lived through the experience of being a "husband." Since both marriages failed I suppose it could be easily said that I also failed as a husband, which I don't mind admitting. I completely went through the motions of being a husband and never really took the role all that seriously. It was just another of the various identities I wore for a time.

The etymology of the word husband comes from the Nordic languages, "Husbondi" (master of the house). And at least I fulfilled that requirement as I managed to uphold. The "life partner" to the wife, not so good, obviously. When I bring the experiences of my marriages to the present and look at them, I see that I existed within my own private bubble of thoughts, secrets and perspectives that I never shared. Neither wife had any idea who I really was. I don't blame them. I simply didn't know how to share myself within any type of honesty, let alone self-honesty. As I have said, it was as if I was performing a role, and a rather shallow one at that. I did not tell the women who ended up marrying me that I really didn't want to marry them. I simply went along with it. You could say that I sacrificed myself for them so they wouldn't be alone because nobody else would marry them (or so I thought). I didn't tell either one that from the first day of marriage I would be leaving open a back door to escape at my time of choosing.  At the time I didn't know what I really wanted, to be free or to be legally bound to someone for the rest of my life. It was so much work trying to find someone interested in me in the first place. And while I never deluded myself that I was "in love" with either woman, it seemed to be a better bet just being with someone however which way they wanted it. They both asked and I agreed and immediately regretted the decision. Why couldn't I just say what I really felt? Because I was a coward. Because I was lazy. It apparently was far easier for me to sacrifice my life to women I didn't love (or rather, pretended to love) than to just say no, not interested in that, babe. I didn't have my priorities straight, it seemed.

But there was a payoff, as there always are in relationships. Shelter, sex, companionship and largely got to do what I wanted, which manifested with me alternating between being a nice husband and a royal jerk.

The upshot is that the consequences that arose from my self-dishonesty has made it very clear that none of this was justifiable, necessary or smart. Pure lunacy. And I caused a lot more problems for everyone instead of being a great help. Not cool and I am sorry it ever happened.

I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to play the husband character with the full knowledge of dropping that role when it suited me, and not realizing the harm and damage such a secret agenda could do another.
I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to "play" the role of a character called the Husband and not taking it seriously enough and the consequence was that other people were hurt due to the nature of thoughts within my secret mind.
I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself for not respecting my wives enough to tell them the truth of how I actually felt about getting married, and this gave then false hope and an incomplete reading of the situation of our relationship with them thinking everything is okay and with me thinking of ways to get out.
I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to use women to protect me from loneliness and boredom which prevented me for a long time from facing myself and becoming self-honest.
I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to not divulge any of the contents of my secret mind to others while this went on, because I feared that they may become upset -- not realizing that all I had to do was to show them where I was and speak it out loud and say everyone a lot of trouble
I forgive myself that I accepted and allowed myself to be sacrificed within my marriages, and there I wasted a lot of valuable time and energy.
I forgive myself that I did NOT accept and allow myself to not say, "NO I don't want to get married"  when asked.

I commit myself in relieving the character of the husband for good and not activate him if ever I am asked to marry again.
I commit myself to take my relationships seriously, and if I ever get married again  I will not disrespect my partner by not telling her what is going on within me.
I commit myself that will not use the back door of my secret mind thoughts to deceive and delude my partner into a false reality where she thinks everything is fine while I'm planning to escape.
I commit myself to no longer offer myself up as a sacrificial relationship to another because a sacrifice only has value if that value is destroyed by the sacrifice - and whatever is destroyed by sacrifice can never be replaced.

5 comments:

  1. Cool. Never married, walking the same points here

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  2. Very cool - thanks for sharing this!

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  3. "...where she thinks everything is fine while I'm planning to escape." lol

    Cool blog thanks

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  4. wonderful, so well said. thanks for sharing. every now and then, I entertain the idea of escape, only few years, she is the one I wanted more than anything in this world, now plotting escapes, and often in regret, its funny how things change, I see/realize in my case its more of self-sabotage of my part. lesson to share is first get to know the being, see if a practical life journey with this being is practically possible, then make well informed decision and turn it into a real living agreement. I fell in-love, and i just said ok, lets marry, i hardly knew about my own secret minds, what I wanted, i knew nothing about me, and i knew nothing about her too, just attraction, energy, and a charming pretty face, all it took for me to make a big decision. practical self-honesty is a must. but then again, whoever you marry, is going to be more evil than you, that is a fact, very little chance of finding a being without a MCS, so you will face their evil as you face your own evil, only difference you got the tools, do they? lucky if they do. that is the power of agreement, where 2 evil humans agree to undo their evilness by applying the desteni tool, and walk process of self-correction together within an agreement, in supporting and assisting each other, with some fun/sex on the way. So dont' wait from the ms/mr perfect to show up, get to know someone in detail, see the practical issues in detail, in all dimensions, then see if he/she willing to apply the desteni tools and walk this life together. pls "falling in love" is warning to not to marry. lol. so you wont meet ms/mr perfect, but you can craft an agreement where both can become a perfect. i am now after 4 yrs of marriage, back to the drawing board, with her, seen how we can craft a path for us, she not applying desetni tools makes it a bit harder, so i have to show the way, and stop my mind with ideas/perceptions, and be HERE as breath, in this, all ideas of drop away. after all, even so called marriage, or agreement is only an idea, if you're entirely living within this breath. absolutely no pictures or memories to direct this moment, only you as life direct this moment within what is best for all. thanks.

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  5. Thanks for all the comments here.

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