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Old Dec 19, 2019, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by bpcyclist View Post
My mom, God rest here really wonderful soul, had this thing where, any time anything kind of hard or, especially, emotionally difficult and raw, would arise, she would stop the conversation and proclaim that: "This is a heavy number."

That meant that the conversation was over. That's how I was raised. No wonder I learned to bottle it all up and chose a profession (surgery) where showing emotion is a huge negative. I was a very good surgeon, if I do say so myself. But it has taken me a long time to become a pretty solid human. I just wasn't given those skills in my youth. I was taught how to achieve. So, that's what I did.
Wow, yeah sounds like she didn’t like it when people confided or talked about their feelings to her. My family is like that and I even know people outside of my family that is like that. Unfortunately it causes us to bottle up our emotions.