Love Letters to a Healing Heart
"Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are― Anaïs Nin There isn't much to add at this point. I did what I did. Beatrix did what she did. Painter did what she did. Pretty monkeys are gonna fly. We each have our own reasons, stories, and imaginings about the others'... Continue Reading →
If I love you too often I'm conflict avoidant. An uncomfortable pattern with family relationships and romantic relationships.
There are reasons for that right?
Long before I have a conflict with others I have conflict within myself. Who wins? Who loses?
I create my own reality and therefore I've created the conflict.
I see in the situation of infidelity, there will never be agreement about my intentions, motivations, or reasonableness but Buck is challenging us to discover what we can "create together." To focus on the solution and not "fall into countless volleys of 'you said...I said' back and forth." This unskillful approach "usually increases tension and decreases connection."
Intentions don't matter when u r bleeding out emotionally. There is no room for nuance when performing emotional triage on your identity and life.
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