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I think your old college friend is pretty wise. cool


Yes, I think so, too. It was funny in a way: OCF said, "Man, I want to be on your side, but your attitude and behavior towards WAW is making me empathize with her. If my ex had done what you're doing, I don't know what I would have done!"

This, I think, is what I meant when I used the poorly chosen word, "revenge" (cf @Gypsy), and it's what I mean when I talk about Paradigm Shift --> Power Shift. And, not incidentally, I think it gets to the crux of the discussion you and I and @Thinker were having a few pages back over what constitutes "rescuing" vice just being open and supportive when requested/required.

It's "revengy" (or "Schadenfreudy") to see the burden shifted back to WAS. For me, this has been one of the truly great things about the MWD books, this board (cf, @Forrest Gump), and the other books recommended here there and everywhere (N.U.T.S., Codependent, etc. etc.).

On the one hand, I dislike the kind-of zero-sum sense of happiness the paragraph I just wrote implies -- if I'm happy Herself has to be unhappy -- but on the other I definitely like the fact that, by getting myself squared away and moving forward -- by Rolling My Way -- WAW must confront head-on her own feelings, fears, and the like.

Since the Bomb made me do that, it seems only fair to me that My Walk since the Bomb return the favor.