Posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on January 31, 2007, at 22:24:05
Folks I DID it, I accepted a compliment graciously, and FROM my T no less!!
I was telling her about my latest and greatest discussions with husband about how he "doesn't believe in shrinks" and other exciting topics, and about how I got really mad at one point, but I identified the source of the emotion (only 24 hours late) and told him (only 25 hours too late) of my insight.
T gave me 2 gold stars. 1) for identifying two emotions that I had displaced ONTO my poor unsuspecting hubby. and 2) for telling hubby about my failures to identify the cause for my sudden moodswings at the time that they were happening.
yay! go me! I had an emotion (anger) and expressed it (to the wrong person-- my hubby, not the colleague who's email pissed the hell outta me) and then later (the next day) had an AHAAAA! moment, and went and apologized to hubby, who held his head high and said "I HATE being accused, and most of ALL, I don't believe in shrinks [just what I wanted to hear when I was explaining to him why I'm now, after 8 years of being together, able to piece together a simple misunderstanding]"
Dinah, who seems to have a soft spot for my marriage-- you'll be happy to know that next time hubby and I are available, we'll be seeing the "shrink" together, because although he "doesn't believe in shrinks [to help HIM]" I begrudgingly got him to admit that a "shrink" MIGHT help us (the married couple) or me (the crazy?? one).
And now off to sleep.
I'm so sorry that I've been missing on p-babble. I miss y'all.
-LlNoodle
p.s. i accepted the stars, and then got a bit ungracious when I said I'd use them to cover up my two (7?) zits-- which I then pointed out to my T. See?!? She was still happy with me, though.
poster:Llurpsie_Noodle
thread:728612
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