Woosh, there it goes right by you again.
As Miriam said yesterday, it is hard to know the difference between exercising your rights and being a colossal bitch, to paraphrase it a little.
The only tool I have to cope with this problem is to examine my own motives. Why am I doing what I am doing? Is it because I am afraid? Is there a more sensible way about it?
In my case the answer is usually yes.
In order to rebuild my (self-) battered self-respect I've decided to tell people how I feel when I feel strongly about things, insofar as I can, and with as little fear in my heart (and words) as possible.
I don't feel that I've reached anything resembling emotional balance yet, but I recently went through a notebook that I kept back when I started seeing a therapist. My therapist had asked me to write down every thing that made me feel bad every day, and note down the intensity of the feeling and what I did about it.
The pattern was obvious when I saw it again. I kept getting upset about things and not saying or doing anything about it. This is the very character flaw that made living with my former housemates completely hopeless, because Co-dependancy breeds communication breakdown which breeds bitterness.
I keep hurting my boyfriend by being distrustful and impatient. I've caused my friends grief by my long-term inactions. (More than you even realise.) I don't want to be that person anymore.
I've been doing deconstructing myself a lot for the last few years, doubting my every move and word and I think that I am way due for some re-construction. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It's going to be a rocky start, but I'm pretty sure that I've got the right idea... To begin with anyway.
Stop Me - Mark Ronson