How can I believe men? And should I even?
I’m a young queer woman in my early twenties, and as I get older and I become more experienced with talking to men in the dating world, and become more confident and well acquainted with myself, I’ve come to a realization… I simply don’t believe a single word men tell me. (Romantically).
And it’s not because I don’t feel deserving of it, I know I’m very deserving and capable of receiving romance/romantic gestures. But I genuinely just see every romantic interaction from a man as a lie. As a way to get something from you. Everything comes with a specific motive.
A man could tell me everything I want to hear and beg and cry for me, and it genuinely wouldn’t mean anything to me unless every single one of his actions backed his words.
I don’t hate men, and I don’t have trust issues either. But men specifically just really have to WORK for my trust. And the realization of not being able to take a single man seriously is starting to frustrate me. Is my self respect too high? Or is this how it should be?
Why are men such a joke to me? And is this something I should fix even?