Commitment and Pseudo-Honesty
Commitment requires unrestricted and uninhibited honest communication about the true innermost feelings, based upon mutual trust and enabling mutual support.
Bonding disabled men often believe themselves to be honest, because they tell no direct lies. But by hiding things, that would be important for their partner to know, they are not sincere. When the partner of such a man experiences few or even no lies ever, she trusts his honesty much more than is justified. This form of pseudo-honesty is a trap and can be very misleading to a committed woman. Either she wrongly assumes that he is really sincere and what he tells her is all there is and there is nothing hidden. Or she projects her own commitment upon him, filling the untold gaps with what she takes so much for granted, that she omits to be explicit about it. Both mistakes often have very painful consequences.
1. Such men omit telling the woman things, because they perceive themselves as singles with a woman peripherally attached, and therefore they consider a lot as their own private matters and as none of her business. But a woman, who perceives herself in a committed relationship, feels the need and considers herself as entitled to know.
As an example, a bonded couples decides together, what to spend their shared resources of money on, while a single man considers his money as his personal property, even when they share expenses, and he perceives it as his unlimited right to buy, whatever he wants to buy, without consulting her.
Commitment requires unrestricted and uninhibited honest communication about the true innermost feelings, based upon mutual trust and enabling mutual support.
Bonding disabled men often believe themselves to be honest, because they tell no direct lies. But by hiding things, that would be important for their partner to know, they are not sincere. When the partner of such a man experiences few or even no lies ever, she trusts his honesty much more than is justified. This form of pseudo-honesty is a trap and can be very misleading to a committed woman. Either she wrongly assumes that he is really sincere and what he tells her is all there is and there is nothing hidden. Or she projects her own commitment upon him, filling the untold gaps with what she takes so much for granted, that she omits to be explicit about it. Both mistakes often have very painful consequences.
1. Such men omit telling the woman things, because they perceive themselves as singles with a woman peripherally attached, and therefore they consider a lot as their own private matters and as none of her business. But a woman, who perceives herself in a committed relationship, feels the need and considers herself as entitled to know.
As an example, a bonded couples decides together, what to spend their shared resources of money on, while a single man considers his money as his personal property, even when they share expenses, and he perceives it as his unlimited right to buy, whatever he wants to buy, without consulting her.
There are two varieties of such a disruptive situation:
1.1. The man does not talk with the woman about important issues, because it does not even occur to him, that it could be important to inform her. He believes to be telling her everything she has a right to know.
1.2. The incompatible situation of a non-bonded man with a committed woman expecting commitment from him leads to conflicts, and he feels it as his right to slyly and sneakily keep information from her to avoid unpleasant arguments. He is unaware of the fact, that by this method of avoiding conflicts, he also impedes any improvement of the relationship.
2. Sometimes bonding disabled men believe to be sincere, because they have some kind of psychological trouble, that either makes them unaware themselves of what they hide from her, or they lie to themselves and then expect the others to share their believe in their own lies. When they are in denial of unpleasant realities or when they project their own problems upon others, they are dishonest with themselves.
Narcissists are a good example. They are emotional weenies behind a mask of bullies on the outside. They firmly believe in their own grandiosity and expect reverence and adulation even from people, who are more skilled and better educated. They hide the vulnerable, anxious weeny from themselves and therefore they cannot reveal the truth to a partner.
In all these cases, there is a vicious circle. Lack of sincere and unrestricted communication impedes bonding, and lack of bonding impedes sincere and unrestricted communication.
My mindmate is someone, who reveals his true self to me, who shares his innermost feelings with me, who wants me to know him as he really is, with all his strengths and also all his weaknesses. He is someone, who can accept support from a partner and who asks for support. He is someone, who does not feel any need to play a role and hide himself behind a mask. He is someone, who needs a relationship and a partner, and who is able to admit it.
My mindmate is someone, who is not only honest by not telling lies, but who is sincere also in not hiding anything from me.
1.1. The man does not talk with the woman about important issues, because it does not even occur to him, that it could be important to inform her. He believes to be telling her everything she has a right to know.
1.2. The incompatible situation of a non-bonded man with a committed woman expecting commitment from him leads to conflicts, and he feels it as his right to slyly and sneakily keep information from her to avoid unpleasant arguments. He is unaware of the fact, that by this method of avoiding conflicts, he also impedes any improvement of the relationship.
2. Sometimes bonding disabled men believe to be sincere, because they have some kind of psychological trouble, that either makes them unaware themselves of what they hide from her, or they lie to themselves and then expect the others to share their believe in their own lies. When they are in denial of unpleasant realities or when they project their own problems upon others, they are dishonest with themselves.
Narcissists are a good example. They are emotional weenies behind a mask of bullies on the outside. They firmly believe in their own grandiosity and expect reverence and adulation even from people, who are more skilled and better educated. They hide the vulnerable, anxious weeny from themselves and therefore they cannot reveal the truth to a partner.
In all these cases, there is a vicious circle. Lack of sincere and unrestricted communication impedes bonding, and lack of bonding impedes sincere and unrestricted communication.
My mindmate is someone, who reveals his true self to me, who shares his innermost feelings with me, who wants me to know him as he really is, with all his strengths and also all his weaknesses. He is someone, who can accept support from a partner and who asks for support. He is someone, who does not feel any need to play a role and hide himself behind a mask. He is someone, who needs a relationship and a partner, and who is able to admit it.
My mindmate is someone, who is not only honest by not telling lies, but who is sincere also in not hiding anything from me.
