The willingness to truly see Painter as who she is means seeing myself as I am in that pattern. And to see this truth is to live with remorse and regret, and experience sorrowful grief.
loss
21: Briefly This and That
A bit more of this and that.
18: Sex.
There are places I remain frozen in the past.
An outcome of my marriage and the last several relationships is I feel as if I am sexually wrecked. I feel frozen between desire and doubt, analysis and paralysis, ambition and silence
61: Being Incognito: Thoughts on Grief, Loss, and Children
I pretend things didn’t happen that did. I confuse resiliency with the appearance of strength and cover with bravado. I pretend the losses don’t hurt.
50: Things I Carry: Grief and Joy
Certainly, things and people change – the simpatico of our needs can shift – but we have no chance of…