Save your line about needing to be free. Alright, reason number 185865436453 that I adore Dan Savage, and I think this point is so important and speaks so well to so much of the total bullshit that has gone on in my life and the lives of so many of my friends that it must be in bold face:

"A man's fear of commitment is boring, boring, boring; it's not the interesting existential dilemma so many of you straight guys seem to think it is."