Is Your Beard
Budding?—Down Low Dudes
In 1827, Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower. I
wonder what yards looked like before then. I guess grass wasn’t something one
nurtured like we do now like babies—watering, pruning, feeding, reseeding…
Yikes, my front yard is more like a crop of various weeds, than it is grass. But
as you may have figured, the beard I’m talking about isn’t Edwin.
I went out with a great new girlfriend last night for
dinner and drinks. She is beautiful, lovely, fun, and just a treat for a gay man
to hang with. We dished and laughed until our two margaritas ran out, and she
had to pick up her young boy from football practice. In those times I wondered
what the hot waiter thought about us. Was she my girlfriend, date, or just a
beard? My friend told me the waiter was looking at me every time I turned away.
HMMM. He looked familiar too. I was hoping this guy wasn’t someone I almost knew but was too wasted to
remember in my youthful times of little integrity.
Beards are budding all over the place. I have never known
a time in my life when married men are more on the down low than ever. If you were to go on any gay dating or hook-up
site, the majority of the users are
married, have headless pictures to protect their anonymity, and obviously have
given up on the idea that they should be true to their wives, who by now are
just beards for these gay men. Yes, you heard me. Just because a married man
can have the occasional “date night” sex to satisfy a wife, doesn’t mean he is
straight. Most of these guys will not be able to sexually perform with the wife
after a while and end up divorced at fifty.
If you are one of these wives who has a husband not able
to perform, Cialis and testosterone are probably not going to help in the long
run.
When I was single, I decided I was only going to go on
dating sites for gay men where the men were truly interested in relationships.
Yes, these sites exist: “OKCupid.com, Compatiblepartners.com, Onegoodlove.com
are three I remember.
After I met the “five” available compatible men in
Nashville looking for relationship, I decided to move on to the trendier gay
app sites. This is when I was inundated with straight men pretending to be
single. Fortunately, I had read Amir Levine’s book, “Attached.” because I asked
the proper questions immediately and the news came flashing by like lightning:
“Yes, I’m married, but I’m sure I can have a relationship with your, without
her knowledge… We have kids and I can’t leave her... She’s my best friend...
I’d never want to hurt her…” You name it, it has been said to me about these
wives. Not just a couple times. Probably more like 20 times in a period of a
year.
One was so bold to even invite me to meet the wife. I
think maybe this one wanted to have a bit of a three-way or was awfully good at
deception. Goodness. Above and beyond the obvious, having a wife as a beard is
a grand guffaw in Life Authentic.
You can’t be yourself, you will never be able to be yourself, and no one in
your life truly knows you and loves you for who you really are if you can’t be
who you truly are. How good does that feel?
I have had a few clients who were married and came out to
me. Some, I was thinking, really… I could see that you were gay from the
telephone! Others, maybe not. But, when it comes right down to it, if you are
with someone because of your children and because of a traditional believe in a
religion, you are doing a disservice to your wife and children and mostly to
yourself, because everyone in your life really need to see you have courage and
guts to be yourself and be proud of it.
Unfortunately, religion has much to do with our down low
friends. They figure it would be easier to live in a world where they are
perceived as straight and have gay dalliances only when they can’t hold on to
their desire any longer without bursting into flames. They figure God will
forgive a life where they are, at least, trying to follow the perceived laws of
God.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. If you were God,
which person would you grant mercy to: the one who was trying with all his
heart to discover his authentic self and relationship to God, or the man who
hid in dark rooms, on gay hook-up sites, and asked forgiveness every two weeks
for the same sin?
My odds are on the first man!
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The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
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