Two people talk about faking intimacy in relationships and why emotional honesty matters. They share stories from past relationships and what they learned about being vulnerable instead of pretending.
I faked every single. With every single partner. Until I met Xander, I actually had. Had this.
You make me sound so special in this story, and I'm really. I'm really not. It was. It was a person before me that really. That really set me up for success.
Because I had this experience where I was hooking up with somebody that I was really into, and he made this, like, crude, weird joke about how he was so good at making me, even though I had just faked it.
Well, you were so good faking.
And I was actually. I was very good at faking them. I put on an excellent performance. But, yeah, like, in that moment, it was like, I can't. I'm never doing this again.
He took credit for your performance?
Yeah, he's like. He said, I can play you like a fiddle. Which, like, to this day, it's 20 years later, to this day, it still makes me want to hurl.