Thursday, December 9, 2010

Public Life, Private Life, and Secret Life

I can't remember where I heard this, but somebody obviously MUCH smarter than myself determined that we all have a public life, private life, and a secret life.

Just think of the masks we wear at our jobs, with our communities, etc. We all try to lead perfect-looking lives. Heck, WE have it all together, right? Look at how many strive to portray the "perfect" life when just underneath the surface calamity prevails.

What eventually happens is that the "non-perfect" part of ourselves surfaces no matter how much we try to keep it under wraps. What would people think if they discovered WE were NOT perfect? The SHAME! Yet, we all have parts of ourselves that don't fit neatly into society's little mold of expectations.

What do we do with that? Well, we create our private lives and our secret lives. Depending on your degree of demons, private lives and secret lives may or may not communicate with each other.

The moral of the story? Make sure that prior to getting married you *know* what the private and secret "non-perfect" tendencies are with your mate, and that they are compatible with your own.

Believe me.... they will eventually make themselves known.... by then the damage could be horrendous.

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