Tuesday, May 12th, 2020.
Monday, May 12th, 2014.
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020.
Monday, May 12th, 2014.
I do my best to be reasonable about little messes, but they really do turn me all the way up to 11 instantly. Instead of blowing my top, I usually just shut down. Which we all know isĀ super healthy.
There were days in February where I was a blank. Where my notes read things like “I worked. I can’t remember anything else.”
Since it was grief at losing my Mother that had me so disconnected, I decided to write about my memories of her on those days.
The biggest disagreement we ever had was whether I should marry my ex-wife or not and I don’t think that if Mom had lived to 100 she would have ever forgiven her for the way that ended up falling apart.
I miss her protectiveness. I miss my Mom.
The amount of time my brain spends convincing me that everything bad that has happened to me is happening again would be much better spent thinking about … just about anything else.
Being okay with us possibly never speaking and feeling a sense of loss are not mutually exclusive. The hard disconnect between how I lived from 17-34 and who I am today is something I still struggle with, no matter how much healthier I am today.
An actual partnership? Huh.
Group therapy can teach you so much about yourself in the things you learn about someone else. Also, a few people out there definitely had to die in my brain before I could start over with them. That doesn’t mean we’re ever going to be close again, but they are fully not what they were before. And that’s a good thing.
The more time I spend thinking about it, the more certain I am.
Life keeps going.
“I” statements make all the difference, folks.