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thanks Krisles
I know what you mean about the problemmatic side of strong empathy, feeling drawn into the ocean storm of other people's emotions. I'm tending to think that my current posts are sketches for the second draft of my book. At the moment I'm fairly focused on sketching the shadow regions. I've actually found in my own experience that detailed and specific remembering, particularly through writing, tends to dissipate the vague fog of sadness. That kind of specific memory shows that the bad stuff tends to be composed of a beginning, middle and end and existed within the bigger context of life's highs and lows. Thanks for taking the time to read my posts. I've certainly been enjoying yours.
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robdon67
on July 13, 2005 at 12:29 AM
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robdon67
And that silence was very lonely. - Those words reached out from the screen and grabbed my heart. I am a woman of consuming empathy. It is a curse to me in this life. I can read your posts with some peace because I know that you got away from there. Unfortunately, I am married to a man who has not found a way to get away from his misery...his own mind is that misery. I provide what relief I can for him, but finally realized that I do not have to sacrifice my whole life on the altar of his misery. I leave for a couple of months, my only contact with it through phone calls....then I come back for 4-6 weeks and soak up as much of the emptiness as I can for him. I will have put in 27 yrs of marriage to him this month....his monastary: the walls in his mind. ......Your writing is very powerful to me.
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Krisles
on July 11, 2005 at 9:50 PM
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