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Originally Posted by Amyjay
I can relate to so much of this. We tend not to have romantic relationships because they are just too darned triggering. We have had some relationships in the past, but lets just say they weren't good ones.
The friend thing, oh my gosh I can relate to this! Different alters have different friends, and when the wrong friends mix with the wrong alters it just doesn't work for anyone! Like you our current solution is to avoid all of them.
Hands down I would say DID most affects my life in the area of personal relationships. This system is just not stable enough to maintain a personal relationship beyond the level of a simple acquaintance. Maybe one day though...
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This too. Relate. Relate. Relate. I get nervous about disclosing what I "do" on this site but I most definitely have different "rooms" of friends and work activities. At the moment, I have left the whole house of rooms. Not really in contact with friends or work activities and totally distracted by medical appointments at this time.
It is like I see the outside world, and they have their impression of who they believe to be me, and I am just here watching all the lightbulbs go off and on in my own mind and heart and guts. I think I am hiding because on the few occasions I've gone out, people seem to react and notice that I am not the bubbly funny energetic me they were expecting to see. And then they ask me if I am OK, or say I look sad. And the irony is...I AM ok. More so than usual. I have just given up wearing costumes for people on their schedule.
Ooph!
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