The Bumpy Road to Recovery #3

[Bagheera]

So Baggy...you know we miss you around here....I was wondering why we get so few updates from you?

Everything for the moment is "steady as she goes": not entirely smooth sailing, but not too choppy, and still moving forward. Each time the Missus and I have a smooth 2-week interval in between counseling sessions, the therapist has the opportunity for individual 1-hour sessions to dig into our very personal past issues: as you know, both my wife and myself are products of childhood abuse in one form or another, which will take time to sort out and heal. Each time we have a not-so-smooth interval, we generally do a 2-hour couples session and dig into what occurred and why, seek mutual understanding, and set the stage for a smoother interval the next time around. We're still moving forward in two-steps-forward, one-step-back fashion.

Because a lot of the ground that we are currently covering in counseling deals with child abuse issues and its affects on adult survivors, I don't share a lot here because it's pretty private stuff and often beyond the scope of this public SSM forum. I do share a little more over on a private forum that contains a number of folks who were formerly here, which gives me -some- feedback on the process that the wife and I are going through.

And when I see opportunities to help out here, I do jump in.

-- B.