Coexisting Gracefully with the Unresolved

[sage]

Think of it like this…if there was something I was doing that caused me to feel guilty and embarrassed and someone FORCED me to open up and talk about it just so that it could make them feel better (regardless of what it did to my feelings) I would not feel very kindly towards them.

Pink,

I completely agree with you on this. At one point I likened it to each of us having a "box" of thoughts, emotions, feelings, etc. I'm pretty free with my box -- I'll show it to just about everyone! But h holds his box pretty dear -- and for a long time, I was demanding to see his "box" and trying to rifle through it. Not pretty. It just made him hold his box more closely...how could he trust me with it if I didn't know how to respect it?

Sage