by rigsby » August 19th, 2013, 10:54 pm
[quote="JoyofSub":d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658][quote="rigsby":d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658][quote="rigsby":d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658][/quote:d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658]
On a slight tangent, how did you guys find your "new normal?" Havving gone through so much change so quickly has left me somewhat off balance.[/quote:d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658]
Your conversion certainly appears to have progressed amazingly quick. Perhaps, you unconsciously wanted to turn more than you consciously realized. You may have been primed and ready to convert.
The sense of being off-balanced is perhaps, that you are experiencing what many here experience. We all arrive here having a certain status of sexuality. Regardless what our particular status is, CFG is designed to FORCE it to be one-way, and one-way ONLY. That implies that the original status must loose something, perhaps even everything. The mind simply won't make such dynamic changes free of flowback, or backlash.
Your professed status had been Bi. Is your lack of balance rooted in the loss of your heterosexual interest? This loss is traditionally the most problematic for CFG converts. You haven't mentioned how CFG has affected your perception of women or your hetero inclinations. How have they changed?
If this does prove to be the source of your imbalance, I have great news. The imbalance is temporary. Stay with CFG and all those troublesome, Sad attractions will steadily evaporate. You'll soon re-establish a much stabler and richer sense of balance.[/quote:d5a/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2658]
Joyofsub, I think you may be on to something, here.
Note, though, that I started listening to CFG on July 8th, so it was over a month before the major changes seemed to kick in for me. I realize that's probably faster than average, but it doesn't seem all that amazing. Of course, I was primed in that I had decided to find a serious, committed relationship (with another guy).
At any rate, I paid no attention to any possible changes in my heterosexual feelings until now, because I really didn't care all that much. After reading your post, I decided to search for photos of my favorite female celebrity, and a screenful of them could get me slightly aroused, but indeed my arousal was a lot less than I would have expected. So clearly CFG is fulfilling that part of the bargain as well.
If you're right about the backlash causing a lack of balance (and I hope you are), that would explain everything. It would also mean that all I need to do is ride out this part of the transition until things calm down. Thanks: that sounds like a plan.
Strong mind, strong body