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Old 01-07-2016, 04:12 PM
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ShootingStar1
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You do NOT have to talk with him everyday. Only when you want to.

He does NOT need to deflect his recovery anxiety/anger/exasperation/fear/guilt/doubt/whatever-it-is into an argument or "rough" conversation with you.

Tell him you'll be waiting a week to talk with him so you both can settle down and settle in to recovery. Don't feel guilty. Don't feel bad. Don't feel that you are letting him down.

What he needs right now is to OWN HIS OWN issues. Wholly. Totally. Without deflection. Silently.

Without your input. Without your guidance. Without your ownership or co-ownership of his issues. Alone.

Set this boundary, and then keep it.

You have the right to a peaceful, serene life. You cannot engineer his recovery by a phone call each day. You can't really do anything for him right now.

Your job is to heal, alone, quietly, silently. Let the wounds start to heal, and don't keep poking at them daily and making them fester.

The wounds are not the issue, and not the answer.

The answer is in discovering how to heal, and that you need to do alone.

So, tell him you love him dearly, you are with him even as the Force was with the good guys on Star Wars, and you are going to leave him alone to let him heal.

Really, believe this. It will make a lot of difference to you both. You just are both too close to the wound and the pain to understand this. You're at the place where you just have to trust and then just do it.

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