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Input: My girlfriend and I met when we were teens. 11 years later, I love her more with each day. She's the cutest, most awesome ball of sunshine and I make sure she knows it.


I've always been interested in different states of consciousness, and I feel my experiments have been a net positive in my life. I tried weed as a teen and delighted in the mad horizons it illuminated. Though now I'm only interested in psychedelics.



My girlfriend hates drugs. She doesn't share my interest in altering consciousness and that's fine, she's a focussed, well put together person and I admire her for that. When we met I was taking a break from weed, so the issue never came up. However the next time I smoked, all hell broke loose. She ignored me for the day. She said she finds people who do drugs unattractive. I responded 'Not everything I do has to make me more attractive to you.' She said she's worried I'd become addicted. I got nowhere.



At this point I should've had the courage of my conviction - but I didn't. Instead I continued to experiment without telling her. Occasionally I'd raise the issue, but it would only cause arguments in an otherwise perfect relationship, so I kept it to myself.



We continued with no problems, and I'd occasionally scratch my itch in my own time. This worked until, inevitably, she found out. It crushed her. She described it as though our relationship were a tree we were growing, and I had cracked it right down the middle. I know I'm the asshole for lying. I decided to come clean about everything, and promised to be honest from now on.



So fast forward to 2017 - we worked out a lot of our issues and she even tried weed with me - not her thing but I respect her for trying. At this point though, I had still not tried any kind of psychedelic, and I expressed my desire to do so.



'All of this reminds me of when you were doing drugs behind my back,' 'Why do you need to do this?' Nothing I told her changed her mind. She was adamant I stay away.



But I had to do this. Personally I would die unfulfilled without journeying into those realms. I told her I planned to do mushrooms. She didn't say much, and in the following weeks whenever I raised the topic she would shut down.



The time came and it was every bit as electric as I'd hoped. We found a beautiful park with a lake. I sat on the edge of the water, watching the golden expanse throb beneath me, the clouds twisting in geometric patterns, breathing every colour of the rainbow as the universe moved through me. Afterwards I felt like I had a new lease on life.



I rang her and she started crying uncontrollably. When I came home she flipped out and I ended up on my knees begging her to see things my way.



Over a year later, I feel ready to jump back in to explore again. I plan on doing LSD, and I'm working up the courage to tell her. 


I am at your mercy Reddit, AITA?

experimineting with drugs despite my girlfriend's feelings