Willing to be disturbed...

[ediemarie]

Hi CL, IA, LWB, Cat and Beautiful2 - thanks for stopping by.

CL and IA thanks for the insights. Both of you, while disagree, have helped me. I do find it difficult to "validate" while annoyed, but I think that by analyzing the situation and discovering what I can do in terms of 180s when in the sitch, I can find ways to get over my uncomfortablness. I must admit that generally speaking I am an open book. If I'm annoyed, confused, happy, sad, whatever, it's written all over my face. I'm awful at acting as if - if I feel it, you know it. That makes awkward conversations rather tricky in my household. But I'm working on this...I'll have to see what happens.

Hey Beautiful2 - every sitch is so different and all of them are loaded with so many levels of behavior and actions - so hard to know from one situation to the next exactly how a spouse will act or how one should act in response to a spouse - tough stuff. I hope things are going ok - your H has been back for a few days, right?

CAT - thanks for coming by and reading and posting!

LWB - I need to catch up on you! i saw that you had a really long thread going -nice work.

Journaling -
Not so much going on. I've been busy with ceramics class - which is finishing up in the next week or two - and catching up on school work. I haven't put up any christmas decorations yet (which isn't entirely unusual for me, but I'm starting to get in the mood) and I haven't bought 1 gift yet - eek! All well, I still have time, right?

I hope you all are doing well!!