Giving up caring what others think or hear about my personal life was one amazingly freeing and heroic act of my part. It saved me from needing to have my truth. When I get caught up in "truth", I get in trouble with the desire to justify. I know my truth. I don't owe anyone else an explanation. End of story.
Took me quite a few months to get there. And no contact with people who try to put me in that position to argue or demand explanations to my "truth".
Sr helped me see that- "what others think of me is none of my business". As long as I am living up to my standards and values, what others think is none of my concern.
Stay strong!
~T