Just a couple things while I wait for the coffee to work it's magic on my brain...and ruminate on your posts.
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Can changing the way I word this stuff on the board, and to myself, really work to change how I think of it?
Yes, absolutely. The state of your experience at anytime is a result of your thoughts, and words are both an outward expression of your thoughts, but can also go the other way and re-wire your neuron connections.
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I don't want to do this for him. It's not my problem. But, since I have done this stuff in the past, he is ok asking me.
I tell my stbxw: "I know/trust/am confident you will figure it out."
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