Forcing the Olive Branch
Preface: As a friend said to me recently, “Of course I want to be liked. Preferably by everyone.” Some people are reactionary; urgently, compulsively reactionary. As Melody Beattie puts it: “We keep ourselves in a crisis state, ready to react to emergencies that aren’t usually emergencies. Someone does something, so we must do something back. […]
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Pretty Girl
Our early experiences in relationships of the intimate variety shape us in strange ways. I used to shudder when a boy – the I hope he likes me as much as I like him sort of boy – called me pretty, or beautiful, or sexy. I’d glance anywhere but in his eyes; just over his plaid-shirted […]
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