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If I had to summarize
how you've described your
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experience with Ping,
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like, the core of
what's disturbing to you...
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is that you feel helpless...
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and you feel like there's
nothing you can do to make
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a difference.
You can't get through at all.
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And you've kind of given up.
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Mm-hm.
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So when early in your
life did you feel this way?
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With whom?
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What age?
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Tell me.
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My aunt
had said to me once,
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"I never understood why your
mother was so awful to you."
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Mm-hm.
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I was kind of
like, what do you mean?
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And, like...
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I guess I never
perceived it as awful.
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It just was the air
you were breathing.
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Yeah, friends and
girlfriends who've met her as
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adults, they're always-- the
first thing when we leave is,
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like, "What's
up with your mom?"
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Like, "What's
wrong with her?"
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What is wrong with her?
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They've, uh,
used words such as
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"cold-hearted," um...
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"cunt," um,
, um...
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"bitch," uh...
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What
was her story?
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I think she's unhappy,
generally, in her life,
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but again, we've never been
close so I don't really know
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what's going
on in her life.
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You don't
know because...
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Not from
lack of trying.
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I remember trying to have
conversations with her,
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trying to reach out
to her, you know,
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she always seemed
uncomfortable with it and,
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you know, changed the
subject or avoided it or...
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So, not allowing you any
attempt to get close to her
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or to get to know her.
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Yeah, I guess.
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And I guess when I
was like 27 or 28,
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I remember I was on the phone
with her for some reason and
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just listening to her talk
brought me down so much.
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I just like felt this negative
energy coming through the
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phone, and like,
weighing down my good spirits.
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Weighing down me.
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And, yeah, it just
like snapped in my brain.
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It was just like...
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This is one of last negative
influences I have to get out
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of my life.
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So does it sound to you
like that ties into what we
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described about your
experience with Ping?
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I guess maybe it feels
different because my mom
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wasn't as...
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combative as Ping.
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But what
sounds familiar to me...
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is your...
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experience of
your partner as...
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unavailable, unreachable,
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and no matter what
efforts you're making,
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you can't reach her.
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I mean I
see the parallel.
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But then I guess my
question is like well,
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what else is there to do?
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Because I feel like I've
tried everything else.
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At least everything
else I could think of.
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Well, if the place you go
is "no matter what I do,"
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it's not gonna
make a difference.
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You're not gonna
have a lot of...
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creative energy
to figure out how
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to find each other.
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You're just gonna be
stuck in that helpless place.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do you have
any thoughts about this, Ping?
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You know, he
talks about his childhood, but
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I'm like, "Your mom didn't
like you and she didn't talk
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to you, but your mom didn't
get so frustrated she tried to
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hang you out a fucking
window when you were six."
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So...
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What do you mean?
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Well, my entire
torso was out the window.
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I mean, she had me, my
feet were still on the floor,
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but she had me out the window.
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-That sounds terrifying.
-Yeah.
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My mom was frustrated.
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She was here, she
was in her mid-20s,
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and she had to leave
her family behind,
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so it was just us, you know?
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-My family.
-Us being?
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Her, my dad, and me
and my two sisters.
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So we got hit a lot,
and I got hit a lot.
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Do you remember how you felt?
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I felt angry.
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I didn't feel sad.
I felt angry.
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You know what it felt like?
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-It felt like a power struggle.
-Mm-hm.
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That she was always
trying to get me to yield,
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to acquiesce.
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Yeah, but
she's telling you that...
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That she's
the one in power.
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I'm not the one in power.
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-Yeah, yeah.
-Whereas it only served to--
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So I understand,
the anger of being,
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I guess,
dehumanized in that way.
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Making you feel
completely unsafe.
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Utterly.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was, you
know, like you said,
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the air that we breathe.
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I've always fought.
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There was no flight.
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Flight was never
an option for me.
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I fought.
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And trying to get away from
that and be in a relationship,
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-it's hard.
-Mm-hm.
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So we have to stop...
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but I-- I
want you to...
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keep these histories in mind
when you're interacting with
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each other.
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What do
we do with it?
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Right now,
don't do anything.
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Do less.
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Understand that these
histories are in operation.
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They're fueling your
experiences with each other.
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Just listen in an attempt
to actually understand.
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What
was it about his mother?
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I mean, he kept
saying things like,
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"Well, my old
girlfriends have said,"
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you know, "what's
up with your mom?"
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The mother was
this traumatizing entity,
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and it' like the other
person is not fully...
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-3D for him.
-Yeah.
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It's a thing out
there that causes pain,
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but it's not
experienced by him as real,
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which is why Ping is
getting louder and louder.
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When he starts
crying and then she says,
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"I just hear whining."
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Right, but there's
something about his tears
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that doesn't seem...
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connected.
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It's like he's holding some
kind of other thing that he's
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doing with his tears.
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But
whose tears are they, right?
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Are they his tears, or are they
her tears, and then she sees
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her tears in him, and then
she attacks herself in him.
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It's like a hall of mirrors.
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They're allowing
each other to see
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what they are afraid of, or hate
in themselves, in the other.
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Yeah.
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All right, let's
talk about India and Dale.
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They are both very careful.
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He's super careful
with his aggression,
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and so panicky about conflict.
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For both of them,
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there are major
questions of identity.
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And all sorts of
surprising insecurity...
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that keep getting
passed between them.
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I think
that it's interesting,
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just this idea of oneself
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versus the way you're
being seen by the other...
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because she doesn't know
how Dale actually sees her.
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Yeah.
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So, India
was at home for...
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-A year and a half.
-Mm-hm.
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And she had a lot of time to
spend with our daughter, Demi.
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And now that
she's back at work,
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things have
changed a little bit.
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She's gone every evening.
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So now I have,
basically, between 11 and five
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to try and get
everything I need to do.
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So we talked
about maybe her
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stepping up a little bit in
the morning, so this way--
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We actually-- we didn't...
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Yeah.
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You went on and
were saying, "Well,
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you don't get up
in the morning.
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And she's always late."
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And I get home at
midnight, so yeah,
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naturally I am tired, and
I don't want to get up early
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because I
prepare her breakfast,
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lunch, and dinner.
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You know, I have fed her from
my body for months, you know?
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I'm not debating
whether or not...
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you do a good job.
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Yes, you
are saying that.
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And this is your
energy across the board.
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To criticize me.
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He gives himself so much
credit because he was working
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during the pandemic, yet he
didn't give any credit to the
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fact that I was
pregnant, I had a baby,
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I was adjusting to motherhood,
and I still tapped into my
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resources to help us
stay afloat financially.
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But you're saying
that in the way Dale narrates
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things he doesn't
acknowledge that.
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That's what's
bothersome to you.
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Yeah, when he gets
upset, he's like,
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"Oh, well, I'm the one here
getting up in the morning
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getting Demi
together for school
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and feeding her breakfast.
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Or, "I'm the one--"
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As opposed to...
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Try to give an alternative
narration that wouldn't be
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excluding.
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As opposed to
not saying "I, I,
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I, I did, I'm doing the most."
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But let's say Dale
wants to congratulate himself,
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the two of you.
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-The two of us would be nice.
-So how would it sound?
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Well, we really survived
this pandemic together.
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I can't believe we made it,
but we did, and I'm so grateful.
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But I say these
things to you, babe.
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Maybe not enough.
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Okay, maybe,
maybe not enough.
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This might be a moment to
just be aware of a different
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way of speaking that
will address a certain...
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upset.
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Yeah, because all I
can hear him say is "I'm gone.
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I've left him all
alone to parent our child."
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That's what
I internalize.
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Why?
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You're gone six days out of
the week which is an excessive
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amount of working.
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So you heard that as
some kind of critique.
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Yeah, that was negative.
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Yeah, but I'm not
saying it to take a dig.
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I'm just saying it...
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Hold on a second.
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How are you feeling
about being gone?
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Annoyed.
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I'm feeling
like he thinks
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I'm abandoning
my role as a mom.
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Whoa.
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I'm not asking you how
you're feeling between the two
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of you.
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How are you feeling
about being gone?
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I feel bad about being gone.
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Mm-hm, tell me.
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I knew before I
even got pregnant that
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when kids are
inserted into the equation,
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this schedule was
going to be a problem.
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Like, I am in a place where
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I'm really
contemplating giving this up.
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So, I feel a little torn because
I love, I love what I do.
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Mm-hm.
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But the schedule is grueling,
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and it's just not natural
for a family person.
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Mm-hm.
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And that is starting
to weigh heavily on me,
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absolutely.
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And every time I hear him say
"You're gone six days a week,"
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it's just a grind,
and a grind, and a grind.
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It almost puts this
unnecessary pressure on me
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to-- to make a decision.
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You gonna work, or
you gonna be home?
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I do think in this case,
it sounds to me like what's
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happening is what you're
hearing in Dale's voice
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is really your
own inner conflict.
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Mm.
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I don't really hear
it coming from Dale.
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And I don't...
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I'm very hard on myself.
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-You are.
-I'm very hard on myself.
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You are.
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reggae music
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You never
really loved me, baby
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You never knew
I really cared
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You never
really loved me, baby
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You never knew
I really cared
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You just used my love
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Oh, oh, baby
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We've been
bickering a little.
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-A little bit.
-A little bit.
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Uh-huh...
How does the bickering go?
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I mean...
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-I get, like...
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It sounds like
you're saying something, Josh.
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Oh...
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I don't bicker.
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I'm not a bickerer.
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I can't believe
I'm using this word, "bick--"
284
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We've never used
this word "bickering."
285
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Okay, I'm gonna
use an example.
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I like to go to bed with
the kitchen completely clean.
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I don't like dishes
in the sink, I like...
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You have to wake up in the
morning and have it be clean.
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I want to wake up in the
morning and have it be clean,
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and this morning there
were dishes in the sink,
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and I yell
about, you know,
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"Why are the dishes here?"
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And, "We have to clean this up!"
294
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And, "I have told
you that I don't want
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the dishes in the sink!"
296
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And then Josh will say,
"Okay, I'll take care of it."
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But that to
me is still not--
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Like, every single time it
happens, I don't want to hear,
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"I'll take care of it."
300
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I just-- I don't
want it to happen.
301
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Mm-hm.
302
00:13:53,541 --> 00:13:56,043
Can I just ask
you what your...
303
00:13:56,085 --> 00:13:58,003
thoughts are on this?
304
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When she gets upset about
the fact that I didn't do them
305
00:14:00,548 --> 00:14:04,385
last night, I think, "Yeah, but
I did them the night before, and
306
00:14:04,426 --> 00:14:08,013
the night before that,"
and for the last 20 years.
307
00:14:08,055 --> 00:14:09,014
You know, I've been
doing the dishes.
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So...
309
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yeah, what I
want to say is, like...
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"Lay off."
311
00:14:16,730 --> 00:14:20,526
But what
you then say is...
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"Honey, I'll take care of it.
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I'll take care of that."
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"I'll
take care of it."
315
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"I'll do that."
316
00:14:24,572 --> 00:14:27,074
But then I think
to myself, like,
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-"This is about something else."
-Mm-hm.
318
00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:33,914
I would love if he would stop
me in that moment and say,
319
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"Honey, it seems like
something else is going on.
320
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Do you want to talk about it?"
321
00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:42,214
Because that right there
makes me feel like he's
322
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interested in me.
323
00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:46,051
Does that make sense?
324
00:14:46,093 --> 00:14:49,221
Yeah, it made me think
that you're identified with
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the dishes, that
you feel neglected.
326
00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,060
The dishes
are like you.
327
00:14:55,102 --> 00:14:56,270
Yeah...
328
00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:57,730
yeah, I don't...
329
00:14:57,771 --> 00:14:59,106
But you're
like, "Look at me,
330
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I've been
sitting here waiting...
331
00:15:01,442 --> 00:15:03,235
and nobody's
paying attention."
332
00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:05,279
Mm-hm.
333
00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:08,240
But is it possible that
334
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it's not that you're
not seen, or even valued,
335
00:15:11,452 --> 00:15:15,247
but there's some kind of...
336
00:15:15,289 --> 00:15:19,084
negotiation about
who has the say...
337
00:15:19,126 --> 00:15:21,045
about when and what?
338
00:15:21,086 --> 00:15:22,963
Meaning
that, like, I...
339
00:15:23,005 --> 00:15:24,965
want things to go in my--
340
00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:26,634
on my timing?
341
00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:28,260
That you want things
on your timing, and
342
00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:30,262
Josh, in a way, by
not doing it, is saying,
343
00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:32,640
"I don't want to do it
according to your schedule.
344
00:15:32,681 --> 00:15:34,475
I've got my own schedule."
345
00:15:34,516 --> 00:15:36,602
-But you're...
-I wish he would say that--
346
00:15:36,644 --> 00:15:39,104
I wish he
would say that to me.
347
00:15:39,146 --> 00:15:42,983
Well, he's
saying it by inaction.
348
00:15:43,025 --> 00:15:45,319
-It is a form of saying.
349
00:15:45,361 --> 00:15:47,279
See, but to me that's, like,
350
00:15:47,321 --> 00:15:49,156
a cowardly way of saying it.
351
00:15:49,198 --> 00:15:52,117
Like, why can't
you just say it?
352
00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:53,786
What would
happen if I said,
353
00:15:53,827 --> 00:15:55,287
"I don't want to do
it on your timeframe?"
354
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:56,789
Okay.
355
00:15:56,830 --> 00:15:59,124
I'd think to myself, "You
can't get pissed about this.
356
00:15:59,166 --> 00:16:00,459
He said it to you."
357
00:16:00,501 --> 00:16:03,462
That's how I would feel.
358
00:16:03,504 --> 00:16:05,297
What are you thinking?
359
00:16:05,339 --> 00:16:07,508
Do you believe that?
360
00:16:07,549 --> 00:16:09,510
No, I don't believe it.
361
00:16:09,551 --> 00:16:11,136
Like, I hear her.
362
00:16:11,178 --> 00:16:12,513
But how can you not believe
something that you've never--
363
00:16:12,554 --> 00:16:15,140
This is
what's so frustrating.
364
00:16:15,182 --> 00:16:17,643
You've never tried
it, so how do you know?
365
00:16:17,685 --> 00:16:19,311
Molly, I
want to say something.
366
00:16:19,353 --> 00:16:22,815
Just so you know, generally,
I am a verbal person, and I like
367
00:16:22,856 --> 00:16:25,484
people talking and saying
368
00:16:25,526 --> 00:16:27,152
what they want to say.
369
00:16:27,194 --> 00:16:31,532
But there is some legitimacy
to talking via action.
370
00:16:31,573 --> 00:16:35,828
And in a way, by asking
Josh to say it to you in your
371
00:16:35,869 --> 00:16:40,332
language, it's kind of a
repeat of the same dynamic...
372
00:16:40,374 --> 00:16:42,543
which is your
timeframe, your language--
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00:16:42,584 --> 00:16:43,252
I understand.
374
00:16:43,293 --> 00:16:43,919
There are different ways
that people communicate and
375
00:16:43,961 --> 00:16:48,132
sometimes -- I can't
believe I'm even saying this --
376
00:16:48,173 --> 00:16:52,219
but sometimes the
nonverbal is pretty useful.
377
00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:55,222
So, let's shift a little bit,
378
00:16:55,264 --> 00:16:58,684
and see what
might be going on
379
00:16:58,726 --> 00:17:03,063
through this
scene of the dishes.
380
00:17:03,105 --> 00:17:07,192
What's going on underneath
all of this is that my husband
381
00:17:07,234 --> 00:17:10,529
is very angry
and hurt by me,
382
00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:12,364
and I'm aware that I'm being
383
00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:16,201
neglected because
he's hurt and angry.
384
00:17:16,243 --> 00:17:20,205
Do you want to,
I mean, just talk about that?
385
00:17:20,247 --> 00:17:22,166
About?
386
00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:26,211
Anger...your anger at Molly.
387
00:17:27,629 --> 00:17:32,760
I mean, I'm really
uncomfortable with anger.
388
00:17:32,801 --> 00:17:36,722
I feel
uncomfortable feeling it.
389
00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:38,182
I don't know, the words
that come to mind are like
390
00:17:38,223 --> 00:17:39,725
"ugly" and "weak."
391
00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:42,728
Like I don't have respect
for people that get angry with
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00:17:42,770 --> 00:17:44,396
other people.
393
00:17:44,438 --> 00:17:47,191
Do you know that
you're angry at Molly?
394
00:17:47,232 --> 00:17:48,609
-Do you feel it?
-Yeah.
395
00:17:48,650 --> 00:17:50,277
Yeah, you can
recognize it when it's
396
00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:51,904
happening.
397
00:17:51,945 --> 00:17:54,281
I can recognize it
when it's happening.
398
00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:57,284
I think he knows me
well enough to know what I'm
399
00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:59,745
asking what I need,
400
00:17:59,787 --> 00:18:02,915
and it's almost like it's...
401
00:18:02,956 --> 00:18:05,584
by withholding it...
402
00:18:05,626 --> 00:18:08,921
that is
a way to...
403
00:18:08,962 --> 00:18:11,256
show his anger.
404
00:18:11,298 --> 00:18:12,758
Yeah.
405
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,594
And it's
like, by his lashing out,
406
00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:20,641
I lash out, also, by
continuing to lose control, or
407
00:18:21,058 --> 00:18:23,769
act out in the way that I do.
408
00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:26,939
It's like a way to test if
the anger is there or--
409
00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:29,274
still or not.
410
00:18:29,316 --> 00:18:32,653
So probing, poking at
you, she's trying to test out
411
00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:34,238
is your anger
going to come out?
412
00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:35,781
Is it still there?
413
00:18:35,823 --> 00:18:39,284
Or is your
compassion/interest gonna...
414
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:40,619
show up?
415
00:18:40,661 --> 00:18:43,622
Yeah.
416
00:18:43,997 --> 00:18:48,669
instrumental music
417
00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:16,363
We had a
fight this weekend.
418
00:19:16,405 --> 00:19:17,072
Tell me.
419
00:19:17,072 --> 00:19:20,325
She was going to
meet up with her gay boys.
420
00:19:20,367 --> 00:19:22,703
And then she's getting ready,
and I had not done, like, the
421
00:19:22,744 --> 00:19:25,831
laundry because I was
taking care of the kids,
422
00:19:25,873 --> 00:19:28,333
and then she was like,
"You didn't do the laundry?
423
00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:29,543
I have no underwear."
424
00:19:29,585 --> 00:19:31,503
Because I would've
been able to do it.
425
00:19:31,545 --> 00:19:32,838
No, no.
426
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,006
You would've been
able to do it when?
427
00:19:34,047 --> 00:19:34,590
Well, it
doesn't matter.
428
00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:35,382
Because you were out
the whole day Saturday.
429
00:19:35,382 --> 00:19:35,924
Yeah, but I could've put it
to wash in the morning and by
430
00:19:35,924 --> 00:19:39,845
the time it's
getting ready to go...
431
00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:42,514
Baby, but you notice the
piles of sorted laundry to be
432
00:19:42,556 --> 00:19:43,891
done, right?
433
00:19:43,932 --> 00:19:46,018
-But that's what you do.
-Yeah.
434
00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:50,355
It's a little off,
what you're describing.
435
00:19:50,397 --> 00:19:53,400
I knew I was just being a
jerk saying all that stuff
436
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:54,860
about the laundry.
437
00:19:54,902 --> 00:19:56,361
But you're still saying it.
438
00:19:56,403 --> 00:19:57,863
Yeah, I know.
439
00:19:57,905 --> 00:19:59,531
So
what's going on?
440
00:19:59,573 --> 00:20:01,742
I mean, I'm surprised.
441
00:20:01,783 --> 00:20:04,036
You're going out and having
fun for the whole day, and then
442
00:20:04,077 --> 00:20:07,581
you're complaining that your
laundry's not done for you.
443
00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:12,753
So...how's that for you?
444
00:20:12,794 --> 00:20:15,714
Well, I'm not a housekeeper.
445
00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:19,343
Like, I'm not
there to just clean,
446
00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:21,887
wash clothes and
take care of the kids,
447
00:20:21,929 --> 00:20:22,596
-you know?
-Right.
448
00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:25,349
You could've said "no,"
and I would've came home.
449
00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:26,892
Wait,
wait...keep talking.
450
00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:30,729
In my mind I'm like,
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
451
00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,606
Like, I felt like
it was a tantrum, like--
452
00:20:32,648 --> 00:20:36,568
Yeah, but how are you feeling
to be in that position?
453
00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:38,946
Like I was upset that
she even reacted like that.
454
00:20:38,987 --> 00:20:43,033
Try to describe the feelings.
455
00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:46,912
I...
456
00:20:48,997 --> 00:20:51,458
Try to find
your feelings there.
457
00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,754
That's what I'm trying...
458
00:20:55,796 --> 00:20:56,546
Can I ask you?
459
00:20:56,546 --> 00:21:00,467
I'll give you like a menu of
possible feelings, and choose
460
00:21:00,509 --> 00:21:01,927
whichever one.
461
00:21:01,969 --> 00:21:04,304
Did you feel disappointed?
462
00:21:04,346 --> 00:21:06,098
Did you feel abandoned?
463
00:21:06,139 --> 00:21:08,475
Did you feel
taken advantage of?
464
00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:10,936
Did you feel furious?
465
00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:15,440
Did you feel humiliated?
466
00:21:15,482 --> 00:21:18,443
If I had to choose one,
it'd be, like, disappointed.
467
00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:21,405
And if you had
to choose three?
468
00:21:21,446 --> 00:21:24,950
Disappointed,
abandoned, and sad.
469
00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:26,660
Mm-hm.
470
00:21:26,702 --> 00:21:27,995
You know?
471
00:21:28,036 --> 00:21:32,332
Those are like the
feelings you have towards mommy.
472
00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:34,126
-No.
-What do you mean?
473
00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:35,794
She's saying that those
are like the feelings I have
474
00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:36,795
towards my mom.
475
00:21:36,837 --> 00:21:38,338
No, no, no.
476
00:21:38,380 --> 00:21:41,633
I have a lot of
resentment toward my mother.
477
00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:42,968
Why, because
she abandoned you?
478
00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:44,845
Not abandoned...
479
00:21:44,886 --> 00:21:46,805
Wait.
She abandoned and...
480
00:21:46,847 --> 00:21:47,556
She abandoned her.
481
00:21:47,597 --> 00:21:51,435
She would leave her and her
sister and her brother, and she
482
00:21:51,476 --> 00:21:54,479
would go do her own thing,
and she would go party.
483
00:21:54,521 --> 00:21:56,523
Mm-hm.
484
00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:58,525
Well, we lived like in
an apartment building,
485
00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:01,820
so random people would have
parties on the weekends, and
486
00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:03,655
drink, do drugs, whatever.
487
00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:05,991
Sometimes they had the
party at our apartment,
488
00:22:06,033 --> 00:22:09,661
but then my sister and I would
lock ourselves in our room.
489
00:22:09,703 --> 00:22:12,664
I remember one time, it was
when we first came here,
490
00:22:12,706 --> 00:22:16,376
I had issues, and
I would wet my bed.
491
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:20,672
And then I had like a thickass
comforter, and I had wet my bed,
492
00:22:20,714 --> 00:22:23,550
and she made me wash
everything by hand in the
493
00:22:23,592 --> 00:22:26,845
bathtub, and I
was probably like,
494
00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:28,680
you know, like,
Somalian skinny?
495
00:22:28,722 --> 00:22:30,515
-Like you see those commercials?
-Mm-hm.
496
00:22:30,557 --> 00:22:31,224
Like that.
497
00:22:31,266 --> 00:22:34,853
There were washing machines
in the hallway of our floor,
498
00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:35,645
but because
I wet the bed--
499
00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:38,732
So, rather than take
care of whatever was upsetting
500
00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,401
you, and causing
you to wet your bed,
501
00:22:41,443 --> 00:22:44,196
she made you work.
502
00:22:44,237 --> 00:22:46,531
Yeah.
503
00:22:46,573 --> 00:22:48,867
Do the laundry, by the way.
504
00:22:48,909 --> 00:22:49,618
By hand.
505
00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:52,079
Do the laundry -- I'm just
thinking about the beginning
506
00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:53,705
of the session.
507
00:22:53,747 --> 00:22:57,751
So you're
describing a pattern of...
508
00:22:57,793 --> 00:23:02,756
a lot of really intense
compliance, and ignoring
509
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:06,927
very bad things
that are happening.
510
00:23:08,595 --> 00:23:13,433
So you asked her if
she is being compliant.
511
00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:14,893
Mm-hm.
512
00:23:14,935 --> 00:23:18,522
Is that like in relation
to how I'm acting-- oh.
513
00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:21,441
Yeah.
514
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:23,902
Yeah, because
when I say-- remember,
515
00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:27,239
I described my -- what
she now calls "tantrums" --
516
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,574
as being a
monster, that's...
517
00:23:29,616 --> 00:23:31,118
And I've said that to her.
518
00:23:31,159 --> 00:23:33,537
And that's how you
end up feeling because...
519
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:35,747
I treat her like
shit, and I feel really bad.
520
00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:37,457
Right, and
you feel really bad.
521
00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,626
And then,
she doesn't say anything.
522
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:42,796
Right, but there's something
that's getting very powerfully
523
00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:45,632
played out between the two
of you that you keep taking it
524
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:49,261
upon yourself, like
it's all generated from you,
525
00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:53,557
but some of it
is coming from you.
526
00:23:53,682 --> 00:23:57,769
That nurturing, like,
almost I'm mothering her?
527
00:23:57,811 --> 00:24:00,772
Or do you feel
like she's, like...
528
00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:03,483
you're enabling me.
Is that-- is that--
529
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:05,610
That's a
great word, yeah.
530
00:24:05,652 --> 00:24:06,945
Well, I'm
enabling her behavior.
531
00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:10,615
Yes, in a way, you're...
532
00:24:10,657 --> 00:24:12,784
in some kind of...
533
00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:15,996
in a way -- beautiful way -- but
very not good for the two of
534
00:24:16,037 --> 00:24:19,624
you, you're enacting each of
your enacting parts of your
535
00:24:19,666 --> 00:24:22,627
childhoods with each other.
536
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:26,131
Because you're back in the
situation, where, whatever
537
00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:29,634
warning signs you're
sending, the other person
538
00:24:29,676 --> 00:24:32,179
is not picking up on.
539
00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:36,183
You're back in the situation
where someone's treating you
540
00:24:36,224 --> 00:24:40,187
badly, and
you're just compliant.
541
00:24:40,228 --> 00:24:42,522
You're really...
542
00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:46,318
nicely fitting
each other to reenact what's
543
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,155
been very painful
for you in the past.
544
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:53,825
You have to break
out of that mold.
545
00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:56,328
Mm.
546
00:24:56,369 --> 00:25:01,208
instrumental music
547
00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:08,006
A person can build
a life in a way that they can
548
00:25:08,048 --> 00:25:13,053
maneuver around or away
from areas of trauma.
549
00:25:14,095 --> 00:25:17,015
But romantic relationships
550
00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:20,727
tend to bring up a lot,
551
00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:23,730
because they're the closest
in terms of intensity and
552
00:25:23,772 --> 00:25:28,652
dependance to early
childhood experiences.
553
00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:32,697
I think
we are thinking about
554
00:25:32,739 --> 00:25:36,576
how trauma manifests
in everyday relationships.
555
00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:37,244
Mm-hm.
556
00:25:37,285 --> 00:25:41,248
But at the same time,
people are confronted with
557
00:25:41,289 --> 00:25:43,041
the opportunity to change.
558
00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:47,712
Right, the whole system gets
kind of reactivated as you
559
00:25:47,754 --> 00:25:52,592
rework certain things
that were frozen in time.
560
00:25:56,096 --> 00:25:58,890
For a shut down
traumatized person,
561
00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:02,227
that can be pretty scary.
562
00:26:02,269 --> 00:26:07,274
So I try to convince people
to let go of their fear...
563
00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:13,238
and you'll see things can
change beyond your capacity
564
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,407
to even imagine.
565
00:26:15,448 --> 00:27:20,930
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