Interesting, I've been chastized/questioned as to why I am so "in-your-face-take-me-or-leave-me-but-this-is-reality-regardless" with everyone I meet. They asked what could I hope to gain from such brutal honesty as it would most certainly turn a number of people off. The above reason is EXACTLY what I have avoided my entire life...
When I was younger, I had no backbone, so I tried so hard to mold to what I THOUGHT was expected of me - to please my partner. But that sorta backfired when nothing I did was good enough, I was always "in trouble" for something. Then when I said, "Fuck this" and started doing whatever I wanted as at least this way, I would be happy to a certain degree I was told that I had changed.
Huh?
Well I learned BIGTIME.
My husband knew the score before we ever went on a date... People still find my brutal honesty shocking. You would think they would find it refreshing.