Posted by sunny10 on November 16, 2004, at 12:15:05
In reply to Re: Terminating Therapy » sunny10, posted by Toph on November 16, 2004, at 10:31:06
Wow, I wasn't very clear
> Sunny, if you keep this up Bob will surely bump this over to PBP or PBR.
> You shared a lot and I probably should reread it a couple times, but two things stand out for me, first, you talk about locking up the guns (believe me, no one with any kind of emotional instability should have guns around), but aren't you really wishing that he'd lock up the memory of his last girlfriend? I can see how she'd be the white elephant in your living room.
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Actually, I was trying to say that we EACH had our white elephants in the living room- but we don't ignore the elephants. We use them to grow FROM, to grow IN SPITE OF our pasts.
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> The other thing is, I get a sense that you really care about this guy from the way you talk about him. IMHO, I'm hoping that you would find a less destrucuive, less violent symbol of your commitment to each other. Anyway, I'm glad that you found a way to get some space when you needed to.
> -Toph
---------The GUN is not the symbol- the LOCK is the symbol.
The very fact that the lock exists signifies that we do not truly trust ourselves or each other fully. We are woking on getting rid of the NEED to have a lock.Guess I'm actually NOT a good writer... sigh... my old 10th grade English teacher told me that I expressed myself better with poetry than prose... Guess my problem is that I feel any RUSH of emotional outpouring can be POETIC.
To refer to another thread, emotional outpouring can be beauty....
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