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DePressMe said:
I often talk of the small kernel of hope that lives within me—that little bit of me that keeps me hanging on. My T and I have been trying to make this part of me grow bigger—just like your flower.

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I like these metaphors. This one especially resonated as my T and I sometimes talk about how relationships can just go on for a long, long time, when it would really be better to end them. For me, there was always a small kernel of hope I clung to that I could make my marriage work. I really tried so hard and so long, always clinging to a kernel of hope that I probably should have let go much sooner. Oh, well. So for me, it is that I need to let go of the kernel, not try to make it grow bigger. To face the truth.