“I just want him to be honest with me.”
Do you?
Because sometimes what we actually mean is:
Tell me the truth as long as I still feel beautiful, chosen, desirable, secure, and completely unthreatened when you're finished.
Good fucking luck with that.
In this episode of The Well-Fucked Woman, Tanja and Suzy wander straight into one of the biggest relationship landmines nobody wants to admit exists: we demand honesty from our partners while quietly having a list of answers they absolutely better not fucking give us.
Do you really want to know where you rank among his previous lovers?
Whether he finds other women attractive?
What he thinks about when you're not around?
Whether every sexual fantasy he has includes you?
Whether you're actually the best sex he's ever had?
Careful.
There are questions you cannot un-ask and answers you cannot un-hear.
Suzy knows exactly where her line is. She doesn't want the intimate details of her partner's previous relationships, and she's perfectly comfortable leaving that particular archaeological dig alone.
Tanja is wired differently. She wants transparency—including the shit she knows might hurt.
And sometimes it does.
Which raises a much more interesting question than whether your partner is honest:
Are you safe to tell the truth to?
Because asking someone for honesty and then punishing them for the answer teaches them something very quickly. It teaches them to edit. To omit. To soften. To calculate which version of reality you can tolerate.
Then everybody wonders where the intimacy went.
Tanja and Suzy get into jealousy, previous lovers, insecurity, passive-aggressive texting, relationship check-ins, painful conversations, emotional accountability, and that universally understood romantic gesture known as the thumbs-up emoji.
You know the one.
👍
International relationship dialect for “fuck you.”
They also unpack something women rarely consider: sometimes a man's reluctance to tell the truth has very little to do with deception. He may already know exactly what happens when his truth causes pain.
Real honesty requires a relationship capable of surviving discomfort.
You get to feel hurt.
Your partner gets to tell the truth, and when the truth lands badly, both people need enough emotional intelligence to stay in the fucking room.
Because intimacy isn't created by knowing everything about another person.
It's created when the truth is allowed to exist between you without becoming a weapon.
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Tanja Diamond is a life & business strategist, Tantra Master, speaker and 13-time best-selling author who has spent nearly four decades helping people create more kickass lives. Known for blending neuroscience, psychology, contemplative traditions, and unapologetic honesty, she challenges conventional Click to Book Tanja
Suzy Easterling is a certified life coach, speaker and unapologetic rule breaker when it comes to how we talk about and navigate grief. She is here to help you reclaim your life after loss, big or small, on your own terms. Drawing from both her personal and professional experience she mixes raw honesty, humor and no b.s. She empowers people to turn their pain into purpose and prove that even after loss and life’s hardest times, joy is still within reach.