Today's Thought: Marriage
I am convinced that I'm either going to end up in a lavender marriage or a sapphic marriage.
Just based off experience: I don't think a man is ever going to love me without being sexually intimate. And as an ace person, that's not something I can give them. I've come to terms with it, mostly, but it still hurts sometimes. When I'm only a viable option because I'm a body.
Not because I have a heart, or a soul, or interests, or hobbies. Not because my eyes are the brightest blue you've ever seen. Or because my laugh is never the same but is still infectious. Not because I can be really passionate about things that interest me. Because they were never interested in me.
Only in what they thought I could offer them, without realizing that it wasn't on the table to begin with.
If I married a man it would be for safety. It would be an independent marriage. I do not like moving or starting new jobs, and I don't expect anyone else to uproot their life for me either. It would be safety in legality only. In the eyes of society. It's unlikely there would be any love there. Not in the way either of us deserve.
If I married a woman, it would be for love. I'd marry my ace wife (one of my really really good friends). It would also be independent, but I would love her with everything I had. I'd marry my ex-girlfriend. Independent and calm and easy. It would feel right.
But it wouldn't be safe. I don't know that it ever really will, legal or not.
I just want to be loved and I'd kill to be married one day. But I don't think that's in the cards for me. And I guess that's okay.