My girlfriend wants me to open up to her more. When she asks, part of me wants to tell her what’s on my mind. I also remember what it felt like the last time I did that with someone.
It was in a previous relationship. I let myself be vulnerable with my girlfriend, and afterward I wished I’d kept it to myself. I came away feeling like she saw me differently, almost like she thought less of me as a man. I can’t say for sure what she thought. We eventually broke up, and that feeling stayed with me.
Now I’m with someone who’s asking to know more about how I feel, and one of the things I’m having trouble telling her is how uneasy that very question makes me. She’s asking me in the present, and I’m hearing it with that old relationship still in my ears.
I’m still figuring out how I feel about opening up again. For the guys who’ve been there, what was it like after you told your partner what you’d been holding in? Were you glad you said it, or did you end up wishing you could take it back?
