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Before you can make things better, you have to stop making them worse... Have you considered that being critical, judgmental, or invalidating toward the other parent, no matter what she or he just did will only make matters worse? Someone has to be do something. This means finding the motivation to stop making things worse, learning how to interrupt your own negative responses, body language, facial expressions, voice tone, and learning how to inhibit your urges to do things that you later realize are contributing to the tensions.
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« Reply #30 on: September 03, 2018, 09:01:14 PM »


I'm very interested in someone's view "without distortions". 

What did you find out about you?

About your spouse?

How did feel about what you found out?

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« Reply #31 on: September 03, 2018, 10:29:05 PM »


What did you find out about you?

My reality stays the same whether I am at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of what I do. Whether things are going smoothly or not. I am consistent. I do everything I can to make things work.

About your spouse?

My spouse has paranoid episodes where she is sure I am using her for her money. That's a big distortion. She has changed her mind about what she said she was going to do, and she has re-written the story of our arrangements accordingly. When she feels that way, there is nothing I can do about it. She has painted me black. She has rejected me according to that thinking. She's been hearing some truth when a third person told her I was not like that.

Mostly when she felt loved by a third party. Safer for her.
Funny thing is, when I sent her a recording of me sharing my feelings, I could have been that third party as far as I can see, it seemed to have helped.

How did feel about what you found out?

Scared. Bewildered. As if I didn't count at all, or maybe only as a prop in a play of sorts. Now I take extra care to not let these ways of thinking define me.

FF, did I answer your question?

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« Reply #32 on: September 05, 2018, 07:43:42 AM »

Glad to hear you are still standing!
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« Reply #33 on: September 06, 2018, 05:16:31 AM »

Glad to see you were able to find room mates. Yes, feeling some control over your situation helps. I don't believe that my parents would completely leave me without food or shelter in college, but when my mother had complete control over finances, my circumstances were in the hands of an emotionally labile person. Having the ability to provide my basic needs through working made a difference for my sense of stability.

I think many marriages are not between two people who earn equal incomes and many are just fine that way. However, in a relationship with a dysfunctional person, money becomes something potentially abused for power or control and to ease abandonment fears. Having a spouse who doesn't earn an outside income- even though they may be contributing to the marriage in other ways- isn't a license to treat them poorly. However, having a financially dependent spouse may ease their abandonment fears that they may feel safer enough to do this.

I also feel that having the ability to have some control over our general situation helps as it improves our self esteem no matter what direction the relationship goes. I am glad you were able to get a handle on some of your situation.
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