Interesting to have an old post bought to mind again.. In this one I was trying to explore how fate may summon up someone we have a lot to learn from in terms of our own shadow, dark side and earlier childhood injuries.
I was just editing some of my recent posts when another blogger’s post about Soul Mates caught my eye. Not an hour ago I was re reading over my old journals which were fraught with attempts to make sense of an extremely painful relationship in which I was involved for over four years. In this relationship there were constant battles with emotional expression. I would say my ex was a narcissist. Certain emotions were taboo, especially grief. Just expressing my vulnerability may trigger an attack, and so my feelings would bank up and I began to experience a lot of symptoms of repressed anger.
It seems easy to write this now that it has become clear after a few years of therapy, but at the time it was hell on earth. At that time I was not in therapy, though my ex was telling me all the time that I needed to be since I…
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