C O U C H 39 -The Renaissance Period

Ok im already tired and they just got here... Help!

Thats what grandkids are for...just watching little kids who are full of energy at 9:30pm is exhausting

I think gummy candy crabby patties are made of crack, the kids are bouncing off the walls.

Gummy what!?

Try benadryl. It is the best baby sitter.

Crabby Patties... Sponge bob square pants ?

I must be out of touch with the younger generation! I'm going to be a dull old person for sure.

It is crack...sugar crack.

Ha... They are finally crashing, guess we should have skipped ice cream after dinner!

I think you are supposed to save the kiddie crack for their car trip home - not the first night at grandmothers' house.

I cant help it,im a sucker

Good lord. The point is to spoil them but without dealing with the unpleasant side effects. That is the job of the parent.

Its ok, we will ebb and flow together, tomorrow ill snort pixie sticks to keep up!

Good night guys. I am all discombobulated. We had two snow days so this feels like Sunday. Trying to fit work in around my personal life today was tough. LOL. And a breaker blew at our house, but at first I thought it was the CFI outlet, so I replaced that. Called a very handy friend who said it sounded like the breaker. Neither the County nor the State have paid the appointed fees for attorneys this month, so we have no money to hire an electrician until that comes in. Teenagers are remarkably crabby about 1/4 of the house not having electricity. So, that was a really long way of saying good night, huh? LOL. Good night everyone.

MKAC - sorry about the fees etc. It is a pain when the state/county can't get their checks out. (I know because that is who pays my fees too in the type of cases I take still)

I love pixie stix. The red kind are my favorite. Then yellow.

Goodnight everybody, kids are ready to crash! Sweet dreams to all!

I'm awake.. trying to not have a panic attack.. Anybody else?

Me probably. But that would be less painful than going on with a therapist is who thinks it is her job to hurt me. I would be free from her power.

PS:

But that hasn't happened yet. I'm going to talk to her about it.
The important thing is that I can break out of her power games.

CE, you know I love you and would never seek out to hurt you. I hope you don't mind my asking and I don't know if anyone else has asked you or I missed a thread while I was away. Why do you think your T is out to get you? I do empathize and understand the feeling. I've felt that way about my own T before. Have you considered that it might not be true? Every time I've felt that way, I've been proven wrong. Even when I think she is just engaging in a power struggle, it has consistently turned out to be for my benefit.

I want to apologize to absolutely everyone for my rude and inconsiderate behavior earlier on this thread. There is no excuse for my conduct lately. I have been selfish, reactionary, and no help to anyone. Again, I am sorry. I truly care about each and every one of you on this couch, but you would not know it by my actions.

Good night.

Congrats YYZ on winning couch 38!

Thank you for your gentle response!

My wife has a job helping school teachers to see the error of their ways. (OK, I'm being facetious, but that's a big part of it.) She told me that she had been trained to "hold them in the moment of discomfort", not letting them change the subject, not soothing them, just coming back to the issue until they burst into tears or lash out in anger. That, she was told, is the moment when they are ready to accept change. And even afterwards, she was not to soothe them.

Now this is very much how my T is treating me at the moment. Being on the receiving end, let me tell you it is VILE. My T is deliberately hurting me, deliberately prolonging the agony.

I used to think the pain of therapy was an accident. My T was just clumsy. Sometimes I had a suspicion that it was deliberate, but I decided I was just being paranoid. Because I can get paranoid.

Alas now I know the truth. She deliberately hurts me in order to get me used to the "bad" feelings.

I saw someone post that her parents thought she was too soft, and in order to "toughen her up", they made her stand naked in the yard. That (metaphorically) is what my T is doing to me. It is TORTURE. It is ABUSE.

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... only 2 off from winning the couch. Oh well.... it did look pretty beat up in the end there.

Congrats YYZ.

Yes, I do know you love me. I have missed you.