Old 01-19-2012, 05:23 PM
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Oh man, do I hear that!

I don't necessarily ask people if they're okay, but I picked up my mom's not-so-subtle way of "nonchalantly" asking questions that are designed to figure out if I have something to be suspicious of or angered by, to figure out if someone's "hiding something" from me, or to see if they've done something that I generally disapprove of.

I can see myself doing it, and it's become so obvious even to me in the past that I started calling myself out on it with my husband and apologizing.

It's such a mirror image of my mother's behavior while I was growing up that it's almost absurd to the point of being funny now (except for when I have to fight the urge to do it).

I think I do it a little less now, but I have to often keep myself from asking baited questions in a "nonchalant" manner.

The fact that I dated a guy who lied to me compulsively for ten years before meeting my husband didn't really help any of these behaviors, of course.

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