Matt Damon

and I'm heavily involved in the church and everything, and she was a pastor's kid, and she is amazing.

Hasn't lived half the life I have, and I'm just terrified that if I share this stuff with her, she's not going to want anything to do with me.

Took me a while to figure that out.

It's my responsibility to deal with it and move forward now.

Right?

I'm usually pretty upfront about sharing stuff.

A lot of the way I've overcome...

everything I've been through is just being upfront about that stuff and sharing myself as openly as possible.

So people can criticize it or, you know, adjust where I'm going.

Yeah.

Yeah, how do I balance, because I don't want this to come out like a month or two down the line and she finds out and goes, oh, if I knew that, I never would have had anything to do with you.

So what if

What if I share it all and she accepts me?

Because I had... That's your worst fear, brother.

Yeah, I had a glimpse of it, and then I... You didn't.

It's that simple, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, I appreciate making it an invitation to open the door.

That advice, I think, will help a lot.

When you're going through those days and you're going to go through them many times in life, it's so dark you can't even see ahead of you one foot.