Muddle's Waters V

[MuddleThrough]

My asking the cashier where Payless was embarrassed my W. It doesn't really matter whether or not it's reasonable that she was embarrassed, she was. The trouble with this situation in my perspective is that she held her feelings against me. She held me responsible for feeling the way she did when the truth is, it is her internal world that created those feelings. I may have catalyzed something, but those feelings are hers.

I believe this is a real key point in her own personal stuff - the fact that she tries to escape her feelings by avoiding uncomfortable situations rather than accepting herself and learning to move beyond her feelings. She seems to trap herself in a negative emotive cycle once she has experienced a negative emotion, and I am somehow contributing to this just by being there.