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Old Aug 21, 2009, 08:22 AM
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Wow, so well put...hmmm

What does a "secure attachment" looks like? Perhaps just being and going there. Maybe this is it!

What is a "lasting and connecting relationship"? Maybe this also is it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Feelings come and go, connection/commitment, for me, to a time and place with a certain individual who helps you may be all that it is. Ummm, sorry I gave it my best shot.

I am DD so I have these unrelated feelings happening all the time (or so it appears). But...the bigger picture for me is, the commitment of 8 or so years of therapy with the same person week after week, and in the beginning sometimes 2 X's a week for 2.5 hour sessions! That is a lasting and connecting relationship with a feeling of secure and sometimes not attachment/relationship.

Now, I can be on holiday for a month and feel secure that relationship is what I will go back to and will be there, waiting, like always. Maybe, in the first 7 years I could not have stated this sense of security but with all the hard work of the previous years I can (at least today *smile*)

Hope you get more likable answers.

Luv
Hunny
Hi Hunny,

So are you saying that the secure relationship or attachment relationship is actually the process itself of meeting over time in a safe way? Rather than something to be achieved (an end result)? Sorry if i misunderstood. it's early, and i can be dense at times.