Can you control who you are attracted to?

& other lies I tell myself

I have told myself all throughout my life that I am attracted to the person and not the body. But is that really true? I told myself that when I fell in love with someone, it was for the person they were and not what they looked like.

But I think that may have been a lie; a truth that I wanted so badly to be true that I made it so. I am not sure that th…