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> Well, I don't know about the mother/father question as I'm not dealing with parental stuff right now.

sure. your choice. the thought was just that if you want to understand some of your core conceptions / unconscious beliefs about anger (that are probably functioning to inhibit your conscious experience of anger) then reflecting on that may help...

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Well, I didn't mean to imply I had done no work in therapy on my childhood, just not doing that right now. We did some of that early on in therapy when I was too avoidant to deal with the marriage. I hope to return to some of that early work later. Understanding some of my past, particularly in regard to my mother, was particularly helpful in my moving past a stuck point in my marriage. Right now I am (at last!) dealing with the marriage, am fixated on the divorce, and cannot divide my attention and dwell on the childhood stuff. Sometimes real life calls. Occasionally I am able to answer....

Note to sister: hope it is OK to use your thread for this discussion! (((hugs)))