Posted by syringachalet on March 22, 2003, at 21:54:47
In reply to Re: self-injury/suicide only options??, posted by noa on March 22, 2003, at 21:38:48
I have been in a counseling situation that the client thought I could'read their minds' or somekind of body language and I some how missed it that day.
I know what its like to have to try to keep your 'game face on' when your personal life sucks.I guess for me, personally, its that I have worked too hard and come too far to have everything I worked so far for to be taken because I had a mental melt-down.
I dont have everything I want in my life but I do find joy and happiness in many of the things and people I do have.
For me to expect someone else to make me
feel better about myself is unrealistic and
would be a relationship doomed to fail.
Some people get married thinking that they will have this other person who will make them feel like a 'whole person'.
I think you have to feel like a 'whole person' all by yourself. I feel that marriage should only add to who you are and how you feel about yourself; never take away.
I feel having unrealistic expectation in any relationship is unfair to both parties.syringachalet
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