Lucky: Yes, I'm responding to them. I just didn't figure out the difference between the Reply button WITHIN the post and this little post window at the bottom of the page.
The first C session ended almost 3 hours ago. I'm still processing. The C seemed nice, didn't mince words, said "you can do all this work and still get the outcome you have today."
I then was the one who Told The Story. Tried to be fair, tried to acknowledge the basic facts without spinning them. Think I succeeded. We then got into a variety of things.
WAW spent a lot of time venting -- so angry, angrier now than ever, (implying) that she is better than I am because I wouldn't go for her but she is for me, list of things that irritated her, just being around me made her blood pressure go up, reiterating that she feels NOTHING for me, so tired, done, etc. I expect it's the same everywhere.
After a while of that, C asked me if there were things I had been unhappy about; I said yes in a general way; C pressed for specifics and I gave one.
WAW replied, well okay that's one thing, but my grievances are bigger and over a longer time period.
I stayed as cool and calm as I could. I nodded when she was being accurate, I clarified when she misrepresented (which she did right off the bat)
At the end, C asked if we were going to schedule #2. WAW spent the entire session w/ arms crossed. "I should, I guess." C didn't accept that -- "should?" "I should." C says, "You should eat more vegetables, too." But "should" was the best C could get out of her. I of course said yes.
So 9 long nights between now and then. Hopefully I've lived to fight another day. WAW is texting and facebooking and cellphoning non-EA EA (according to her). So I've got that going for me -- which is not nice.
