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he knows ME, inside and out, and I don't feel the need to adjust who I am in front of him in any kind of inauthentic way.


How you act is not who you are; who you are is not how you act.

When you were first dating YOUR Msr. Le Shmedlap -- did you fart in front of him? Why not? I mean, if you didn't have a need to adjust....

Et voila!