Last night, after a enjoyable interpersonally interactive day with family, I was awakened at midnight to this: "How can you be so loving and caring one minute and so uncaring the next, you're cold as ice."
First thing this morning I read this thread "Interpersonal Effectiveness."
I barely reacted last night, and though a tad frustrated this morning, I recognize the gross emotional manipulation inherent in that rude awakening.
I don't want to live with that anymore. I won't take on the intended guilt about not being good enough. To not be accepted or appreciated for what all I do have to offer, sucks. I give as much as I can, and it's a lot, but it's NEVER enough to fill that needy/ clingy/ desire that's demanded/ expected of me.
This morning I broadcast today's timely "Thought for the Day"
"The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise."
-Moss Hart
American playwright and director 1904-1961
Now then Don S., the question is, how to suggest this material you provide to another who needs to hear this so desperately, but is so unwilling to LOOK at it. I don't want to leave my home but can't keep living this "life of quiet frustration", either.