on 3/31/2008
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Apparently this phrase is being bandied about in new books on relationships and in the blogs of several people I know.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but if they mean body language, I call bullshit.
I spent 38 years of my life desperately ill. My family knew I had medical issues. My spouse knew I had medical issues; yet none save my mother understood the extent of my illness. Why? I was a first class actress. That turned out to be rather detrimental. You see, I was so ill that every morning I woke up and thought, "today will probably be the day I drop dead in the hallway". I tried explaining to my spouse that we needed a plan so that I could quit working and although he agreed, he had no sense of urgency. So far as he could tell, I was doing ok.That was entirely my fault. I didn't know when to turn off the act. And yet, I had quit driving 3 years prior because I could no longer trust myself to operate a car. There were clues if one looked for them.
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