I know *I* sound like a craze GRANOLA EATING HIPPIE CHIC~ and that I am beating a dead horse But frankly *I* love granola...
I would like to say that if you use SSM or DB in conjunction with Byron Katies work.
You would transform in a shorter time.
180s are turnarounds. My old mantra was ? Will this take me closer or further away from my goal? Sometimes I see how others struggle with knowing what the book is trying to say. So I mean no disrespect to DB or MWD. DB saved my M , along with my hard work....... no doubt about that. I changed for the better.
I love this place. I have been allowed to be free with my thoughts and say them out loud and learn to be courageous.
I found myself thru this process. yes it sounds Cliche. But I really did find myself.
MY H not tolerating the way things were and the OW. Were my extreme wake up call.
OUCH~!~!~!~!~!
I still kept myself in the prison of my making by sort of living for myslef and focusing on me but not enough to free myself totally.
I see that now....
I saved my M and then slowly started giving up myself again.
I didnt have the right tools.
I read so may books and analyzed myself to death.
May 1st of this year wil mark 3 years of the hard as h&ll RECONCILING.
If I continue to grow and H continues to as well?
I will then post my STORY in success stories.
I never did , even though I was told over and over again to do it. I wanted more than "SAVING IT". I wanted to be Happily Married. Not like in the Fairy Tales. But content and loved and respected. Like he was committed to me too.
I wanted for him to open his heart and yet i had an escape plan in the back of my head. Just on case, he leaves. So it wont hurt so much. yes I gave too much, but at a price. The price was I was holding back the very thing he always wanted MY SELF , the REAL ME.
I didnt do it on purpose but I di dget in my own way. I accepted a lot of bad behavior in the name of that love.
I am so glad to be here and to have grown from this.
I am happy .... I have come full circle.
God bless, Alicia
* I hope it made sense ... It just came out and I wanted to post.
Thanks FIB~ you have made me think this morning. And now I see that I have finally done what I was supposed to do all along. LOve ME~!~!