We exchanged numbers and quickly started texting each other. My heart melted when I saw a text saying "How's Friday for our next date".
Date! The idea of going out on a date with him thrilled me, in a way it never had with a woman.
All the sudden everything started to make sense. The men only sexual fantasies. The girlfriends who left me saying they felt unfulfilled. Looking back I remember several asked if I was gay a few months into the relationship.
I realized that whenever I had sex with women in the past it was mechanical, I thought that's just how sex was but one night with Tim made me realize the reason I didn't enjoy sex with women is because I was gay. I had enjoyed giving a blow job to him, and not even orgasming myself, more than any sex I had ever had with a woman. I realized I wanted his cock in my mouth more than I wanted to have sex with women. And I also realized that wasn't the only place I wanted his cock in me.
A whole tsunami of thoughts hit me. I realize I had been living a lie my whole life. I also felt I could take a feminine, sensuous role that just wasn't possible with a woman. I dawned on me that the only enjoyment I ever got from women was the physical stimulation but also unconsciously fantasizing about their role. I distinctly remembered one of my girlfriends giving me a blow job and I realized I was jealous of her role.
The reality started to hit me, my whole body trembled when I finally admitted to myself I was gay. The reality began to set in. My whole life had been a lie, and I was totally in the closet, out to no one. I didn't want to be gay, but still my stomach filled with butterflies when he suggested a restaurant by him for dinner. I knew what I was going to have for dessert.
We met for dinner in a restaurant in Chelsea. It was a warm night so we dined in the outdoor garden. Up to till now I had only fantasized about men in ballet tights but when I saw him in street clothes I still got giddy and aroused. He was wearing a fitted dark blue button shirt and tailored grey stretchy jean cut pants that showed off his body.
Over dinner we talked about our backgrounds. I again said I wished I had taken ballet earlier but I was scared of what others might think, and how I admired him for doing it. He said it was tough at times but he never had a problem being who he was.
"By the way", he said, "You mentioned it was your first time. Are you out?"
I said no, and we talked about how I was deceiving myself the whole time. He mentioned that he had tried a couple of dates with women and even sex in college but it just wasn't for him. I admired how he was confident in who he was, and I said I was beginning to realize that denying or being afraid of being gay was really a lack of confidence in myself and a reliance on other people's opinions. He asked if I was going to live in the closet and I said I didn't want to.