I cringe when I see the newbies who are frantically cleaning the house, losing weight or doing whatever their partners have said they needed to fix. I cringe because it makes no difference and really, it never did.
Hi Portia, this is correct, but you know, some of the changes I did in the beginning were actually really good for me. I guess the VALID ones I kept, the others, upon examination, fit into your description.
Maybe it is a process that the LBS has to go through initially, and thereby figure out what is real, and not real. And figure out who they really want to be.
Just my 2.5 cents.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm