Why is it that everyone says that they want complete and total honesty from their friends, family members, loved ones, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. and then when they get it, they become hostile, angry, belligerent or all of the above?
Hey, you..I thought you wanted the truth?
To me, if you say that you want the truth, it means that you can HANDLE the truth, like a gotdamn adult would. For everyone who doesn’t understand what that means, or how an adult would act because they aren’t one (and are just proclaiming to be one due to their age) and need me to elaborate further, that means:
NO pouting
NO clamming up and not wanting the discuss the situation further,
NO silent treatment (for either minutes or hours)
NO yelling because the person didn’t agree with or pointed out YOUR flaws
Do folks that do this not understand how it makes THEM look? (If you don’t know, it makes you look as about emotionally mature and stable as a 3 year old.) Or how it makes the person who’s receiving this treatment feel? (Like they never, ever, ever, ever, EVER want to hold a serious conversation with YOU again. Like they would much rather pluck out every hair on the top of their head or their private parts region with some damn tweezers. Like they don’t even want to BE BOTHERED to even be true to you, and tell you how they REALLY feel.) Do they not understand what this does to their relationships? (Let me give you a hint..it doesn’t HELP them, it HINDERS them, because you have one person who’s saying how THEY feel, and another person who feels like they cant say how they feel, and CAN’T BE THEMSELVES in the relationship, who feel like they have to tip-toe around the other person and eventually become resentful, aggravated and slowly but surely tend to leave the cry baby alone due to their unhappiness.)
But WAIT, there are MORE negative consequences to this..
Not only does it make a person NOT want to speak to you, or worse case scenario NOT EVEN WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH YOU, but it also makes the loved one question that if a person reacts that way to honesty, are they a liar. Honestly, the sulker/pouter/crybaby has lied to their loved one, by saying that they want the truth, and ultimately knowing that they couldn’t handle it. It also means that the crybaby has lied to themselves..and when a person cant be honest with themselves, they cant be honest with anyone else about the most basic of things, so that also brings up the question – what else are they lying about?
So I’m putting it forth today that ANYONE who says they want honesty from me is going to get it. Straight, no chaser. I no longer care about how YOU feel, because YOU don’t care about how I feel when you pout, sulk, sigh, cry or give me the silent treatment.
YOU ASKED FOR THE TRUTH. Man up and deal with it like an adult would..or leave me alone.
Mean what you say and say what you mean at all times…for good or bad, better or worse. It just might teach you to monitor what comes out of your mouth..or at the VERY least, take responsibility for it, as an adult should.
25. July 2010
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