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It stresses me out
when you get stressed out.
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It's not your
responsibility.
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It's not your job.
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I'm just saying.
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It ungrounds me, but it's not
fair for me to place all of my
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being grounded on you.
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That's what-- okay, okay, okay.
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instrumental music
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After last week,
the next day I was in such a
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dark place.
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Tell, tell, what
kind of thoughts and?
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Um...
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I mean, that
dead inside comment.
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It's more like,
like pulling the veil.
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Like, and just being
like, oh yeah, that's...
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That all is there.
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Mm-hm.
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Yeah, I think we-- I think
both of us really had just...
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like...
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put that away.
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Like, we handled that well.
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-All right.
-Mm-hm.
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I think that's how we've handled
a lot of things I'm realizing.
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We stuff it in a box together.
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Yes.
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And that's like
our dealing with it,
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and then it goes up on the
shelf or something like that.
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So let's hear some more.
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Like, let's open some of these.
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Um, so when
I was in high school,
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I had a
relationship with a girl.
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Mm-hm.
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I had
never been in love.
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I had not had really any
romantic relationships,
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and I would say that
this was my first one.
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It was just, like, the whole
world was open and it was just a
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magical experience.
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Two years ago, one year ago.
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Year and a half at this point.
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I discovered that she
was living very close to us
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in New York City.
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So we went out to dinner.
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We had not seen or
spoken to each other...
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Since high school?
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-Yes.
-Mm-hm.
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It's kind of like she
came into my life again when I
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was also having,
like, a midlife crisis.
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I-- I remember, like,
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a year ago, I
started to feel like,
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who am I?
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Like, what am I
more than just a mother?
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A wife?
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Like, is this my life?
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Is this all there is?
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Like, you know, just
those kinds of questions.
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And being around her was
just like being 17 again.
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Exactly.
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So it turned back
into a physical thing.
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Um...
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What about it made
you feel 17 again?
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I felt so alive
around her last year.
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Feeling so, like,
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young again and free.
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And before she emerged,
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Molly was saying
to me that she
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was feeling
very trapped...
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very confined by...
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the parameters
of our marriage.
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What was going on, both for
you and between the two of you?
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A yoga student
that I had had an emotional
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relationship with, he had come
to New York and I had seen him
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and nothing was going on but
what it did was it recreated
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this thing where Josh
started to feel very
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untrusting and asking me
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all the time and...
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Asking things like?
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Are you
talking to him?
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And that was
starting to make me feel,
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like, crazy.
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And I was just desperate to
like get out somewhere else and
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laugh.
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And then here comes this
woman that made me feel alive.
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What was going on
for you at the time,
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when you were
pre-occupied with that worry?
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Um, so the woman was
like a flash in the pan.
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It was this very like kind
of quick thing that happened.
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Two or three months it lasted.
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This other sort of longterm
emotional connection that she
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had to this former
student of hers,
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it lasted kind of a long time.
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And I kept saying please
don't even talk to him.
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And you-- you refused.
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You refused to do that.
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Hold on, Molly I'm gonna
ask you not to speak because I
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need to be able to understand.
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Okay.
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Keep going.
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Yeah, I mean, I would
say, like, "Please don't."
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"Okay, I won't."
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And then three months later
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this person would
come back up again.
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That's a year ago.
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I have to trust her.
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But I don't know.
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I just felt like where she was,
she was feeling so confined,
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so, like, trapped.
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I just was so
worried that if I...
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made some kind
of ultimatum or
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I held on too tightly,
that she would leave.
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She would leave.
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So, I thought, "I'm
just gonna ride this out.
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I'm gonna be here.
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I'm gonna be present.
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I'm gonna try to be
as present as I can."
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I don't know.
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I just wanted to hold on.
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But in the meantime,
it just created more...
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anger.
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Mm-hm.
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I do
think that a lot of this
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would be different if he...
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had been able to...
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express himself,
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whether it's happy or sad
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or angry or...
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insecure.
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I just want him to talk to me.
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instrumental music
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Josh is unable to
really be present with her.
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I think he feels internally
knotted up about not having
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the guts to be more aggressive
about her transgressions.
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Right.
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And I think she wants a
certain kind of presence that I
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think is quite foreign to him.
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And she just finds
it with someone else
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if he's not givng it to her.
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Yeah.
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It's unclear if she's
like punishing him by doing
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that, or trying to wake him
up from a state of kind of
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disassociation or disconnection.
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But she's repeatedly failing.
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So what I'm trying to do is
help her contain herself.
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Yeah, long enough for...
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So she can let him actually
talk about their relationship.
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But in his own language...
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Be an other.
Be a true other.
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Yes.
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I'm reminded of
Cyn and Yaya, and how Yaya is
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not owning her own personhood.
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Right, I'm feeling
like I need to get Yaya out of
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the seemingly
disassociated state she's in.
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Like, she really needs
to come in to the frame.
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Yeah, and
come out of her shell.
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Mm-hm.
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How are you two?
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We had like
a moment last week.
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Tell me about that.
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The way that the conversation
started was more of--
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she started off saying,
"Oh, you know, last week,
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we ended in like a
good, light tone."
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I don't know if
it was just me,
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maybe because it
was my birthday week,
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and I was
just like, you know,
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it just felt
lighter to me.
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Like, I know we have stuff that
we still have to work through.
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I know she has her own stuff.
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I have my own stuff.
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We have our stuff as a
unit, and I was like,
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I'm not brushing anything off.
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I'm just telling
you the atmosphere,
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the energy just felt light.
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And then that's when
she started saying,
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like, "You're just brushing
everything under the rug."
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And I'm like, but
did I say that?
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But Cyn, that's
your fear or your...
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That we're brushing everything
under the rug and we're not
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gonna take care of it.
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Like, I just, I wanna
just take care of it.
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But can you tell me
some more about the fear?
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The fear is that
Yaya will neglect or
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not pay attention to...
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Maybe not pay
attention to my feelings?
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-Mm-hm.
-Or, I...
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You know, I was always very...
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I questioned our relationship.
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And you know that.
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From the beginning
I'd be like, ehh...
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And I would tell her.
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Maybe that's
something we should work on.
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But her response is like,
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maybe that's one
of your moods again...
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So you're not managing to
get enough of a reaction.
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I never get a
reaction from her.
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Like, I try to push her buttons
and it just doesn't work.
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But I'm wondering if
these little comments...
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Is trying to find her
to get-- get her to react?
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Yeah, is trying to
elicit more of a reaction,
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or, you know, you, um...
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I feel like I'm trying
to sabotage what we've got
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sometimes.
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I feel like I'm a
self-sabotager.
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Maybe you're pissed
off about something.
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I mean, I could be.
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I just don't know what
it is I'm so mad about.
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Let's think about it also just
in terms of ways in which things
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happen to you as a child
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that were indeed ignored.
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Oh, yeah.
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Still very angry.
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Mm-hm.
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I'm angry at my uncle.
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I'm angry at my parents.
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But there's something about
that that's getting played out
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between the two of you.
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Us, yeah.
I just...
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In the sense that
you're, on some level,
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experiencing Yaya as
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not picking
up on something,
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not responding.
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I'm wondering if you're
mad that Yaya is not--
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-Paying attention.
-Mm-hm.
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Probably, yeah.
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Yaya, do you-- I mean....
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do you recognize in
yourself that there's some way
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that you're muting
your response to Cyn?
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Yeah, I
know when I get upset,
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I just shut down.
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But in my mind I'm like angry.
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So when something hurts
you you go towards shutdown.
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Yeah.
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But I think that's just the
easiest way for me to cope,
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because, like, when you
get mad, you are explosive.
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You go for the jugular.
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And if I know
she's like that, like,
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I find things to keep me busy
so I don't kind of don't have to
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interact as much, kind of like
letting the bomb be defused,
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and then we can talk.
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Mm-hm.
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But I think you're not allowing
yourself to get upset enough
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for Cyn to feel like she's
actually having an impact.
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Yeah, but I...
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It's not that I don't
pick up on her cues.
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I don't react to her cues, and
it goes back to me not being
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able to fully express how
I was feeling as a child,
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and express my emotions without
there being repercussions for
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doing so.
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So I've had how
many years of just
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boxing it in here and...
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dealing with it internally.
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Mm-hm.
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But I also know that she
is struggling right now.
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Like, she's hurting.
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So, yeah, it makes
me upset, but...
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You gotta show it.
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You're just so composed.
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Something about
you not showing it,
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even though it's
beautiful and gracious,
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it's also not
necessarily the best
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to what's happening
between the two of you.
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Mm.
261
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There's a way that
you're keeping yourself somewhat
262
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removed from what Cyn is
repeatedly saying to you.
263
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Yeah.
264
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instrumental music
265
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On Saturday we went
to the park and met with some
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friends and were
playing couples games.
267
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Yeah.
268
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And, um...
269
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one question
we got stumped on.
270
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Or more so,
he got stumped on.
271
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The question said,
"How do you know
272
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that your partner
has forgiven you?"
273
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Mm-hm.
274
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And I answered
the question very easily,
275
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just, "Oh, well,
you know, you just
276
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come back around,
you talk to me again.
277
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We laugh again."
278
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He couldn't
answer the question.
279
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Yeah,
I couldn't answer.
280
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That's a really
interesting question.
281
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-Yeah.
-Yeah.
282
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Say something about...
283
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what it--
284
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your
thought process.
285
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Yeah, so I
initially thought, okay,
286
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I don't actually know that India
ever forgives me for anything,
287
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because every time
there's a-- there's a fight,
288
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it's the fight plus...
289
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whatever else I'm always,
like, fighting against.
290
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Everything
that has accumulated.
291
00:14:08,597 --> 00:14:10,558
Yeah, everything
that has accumulated.
292
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Yeah.
293
00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:12,977
There's so much
already stacked against me--
294
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It doesn't even matter
what you're saying now.
295
00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:17,022
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
296
00:14:21,735 --> 00:14:23,863
And it makes me feel
very defeated at times.
297
00:14:23,904 --> 00:14:26,365
Yeah.
298
00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:32,496
I'm sort of inclined to
ask each of you what was
299
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forgiveness in
your childhood homes?
300
00:14:35,332 --> 00:14:39,628
Like, how did people
get over transgressions?
301
00:14:39,670 --> 00:14:42,214
So in my
childhood, you know,
302
00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:44,633
we did something bad, you
got a punishment or you got a
303
00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:46,010
whooping.
304
00:14:46,051 --> 00:14:47,636
That was the end of it.
305
00:14:47,678 --> 00:14:48,846
Um...
306
00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,891
we have dog-out,
drag-on fights,
307
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you just say
whatever you want to say,
308
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destroy
someone's feelings,
309
00:14:56,103 --> 00:14:57,897
and cook them
breakfast in the morning.
310
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-That's love.
-I see.
311
00:15:00,357 --> 00:15:03,235
But that does leave you with a
lot of anger that you have to
312
00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:07,823
sit with because
nothing was repaired.
313
00:15:07,865 --> 00:15:09,617
-Mm-hm.
-Any thoughts on that?
314
00:15:09,658 --> 00:15:11,493
I mean...
315
00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:14,622
you know, I see that India
handles me this way sometimes.
316
00:15:14,663 --> 00:15:15,873
Mm-hm.
317
00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:19,043
But, like, I heard
India say, you know,
318
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"I don't want to be viewed
as the angry black woman,"
319
00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:26,050
but a lot of the
emotion that I get is anger.
320
00:15:26,091 --> 00:15:27,343
Mm-hm.
321
00:15:27,384 --> 00:15:30,304
A lot of times.
322
00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:32,681
Well, let's keep
thinking about this,
323
00:15:32,723 --> 00:15:36,352
but I-- I want to ask you...
324
00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:39,521
about your experience
family-wise with, like,
325
00:15:39,563 --> 00:15:40,940
forgiveness?
326
00:15:40,981 --> 00:15:43,067
Yeah,
so, like, my dad.
327
00:15:43,108 --> 00:15:45,694
I will say my dad
is a great dad.
328
00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:47,696
He would always
give us lectures.
329
00:15:47,738 --> 00:15:50,449
And even after we got punished,
he would explain to us exactly
330
00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:51,951
why.
331
00:15:51,992 --> 00:15:55,287
So there was always a level
of, you know, forgiveness.
332
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:58,457
But was there forgiveness
or was there righteousness?
333
00:15:58,499 --> 00:16:00,918
I mean, explaining why
you're punishing someone is not
334
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,087
necessarily forgiveness.
335
00:16:03,128 --> 00:16:05,881
Maybe it was righteousness
because my dad had a very rough
336
00:16:05,923 --> 00:16:07,675
relationship with
my grandfather.
337
00:16:07,716 --> 00:16:08,676
Mm-hm.
338
00:16:08,717 --> 00:16:10,094
He was...
339
00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:13,514
He was basically the
black sheep of the family.
340
00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:14,682
In what way?
341
00:16:14,723 --> 00:16:16,266
Well, my
grandfather was a pastor,
342
00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:18,686
a well renowned
pastor, and, um...
343
00:16:18,727 --> 00:16:21,271
my dad was kind of,
344
00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:24,149
you know, set up with these
expectations that he was going
345
00:16:24,191 --> 00:16:26,110
to be like my grandfather.
346
00:16:26,151 --> 00:16:28,070
And he was running
around, smoking weed,
347
00:16:28,112 --> 00:16:31,281
and doing all the things that
a pastor's son shouldn't do.
348
00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:32,783
And your mom?
349
00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:37,162
My mom put up with some really
horrific things from my dad,
350
00:16:37,204 --> 00:16:38,789
and, uh...
351
00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:40,791
Horrific?
352
00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:42,001
Like,
physical abuse, yeah.
353
00:16:42,042 --> 00:16:43,794
Mm-hm.
354
00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:46,130
And...
355
00:16:46,171 --> 00:16:49,508
was loyal to him...
356
00:16:49,550 --> 00:16:52,136
and stayed loyal
to him through it all.
357
00:16:52,177 --> 00:16:57,016
And, uh, anything that
seemed confrontational,
358
00:16:57,057 --> 00:17:00,686
she would
go the other way.
359
00:17:00,728 --> 00:17:04,064
Maybe that's
where I get it from, but...
360
00:17:04,106 --> 00:17:06,275
Maybe
that's where you get
361
00:17:06,316 --> 00:17:09,361
like an extreme
sensitivity to conflict?
362
00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:12,531
Yeah.
363
00:17:12,573 --> 00:17:13,782
Yeah.
364
00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:15,993
That it really rattles
you if there's conflict.
365
00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:17,327
Yeah...
366
00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:19,747
I think it really
rattles me too because
367
00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:24,001
I'm afraid that maybe
I can be like my dad.
368
00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:25,544
Yeah.
369
00:17:25,586 --> 00:17:27,838
And I don't wanna...
370
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,631
I would never want to
inflict that on anyone.
371
00:17:29,673 --> 00:17:32,217
Yeah.
372
00:17:32,259 --> 00:17:34,762
Because I hated the
way he treated my mom.
373
00:17:34,803 --> 00:17:37,431
Mm-hm.
374
00:17:37,681 --> 00:17:41,226
So whenever I see--
whenever I see conflict,
375
00:17:41,268 --> 00:17:43,062
I immediately
remove myself.
376
00:17:43,103 --> 00:17:46,565
Yeah,
makes a lot of sense.
377
00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:53,238
instrumental music
378
00:17:56,116 --> 00:17:59,578
To help a couple,
I've found that the most basic
379
00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:04,666
ingredient is some
capacity to care for each other.
380
00:18:06,043 --> 00:18:10,839
That if the other person
is suffering, it will matter
381
00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:13,634
because sometimes
all they want to do is score the
382
00:18:13,675 --> 00:18:16,053
next point and
win, win, win.
383
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:18,806
Sometimes he thinks I
have an attitude towards him...
384
00:18:18,847 --> 00:18:20,599
I think he has an
attitude towards me.
385
00:18:20,641 --> 00:18:22,434
And it's just...
386
00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:24,228
constantly....
387
00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:26,021
that's where we clash.
388
00:18:26,063 --> 00:18:27,022
Wait, did you
blame me for that?
389
00:18:27,064 --> 00:18:28,065
-I wasn't even there.
-No!
390
00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:30,234
No, I-- I didn't
blame you for that.
391
00:18:30,275 --> 00:18:32,820
I'm a human being,
I make mistakes...
392
00:18:32,861 --> 00:18:35,614
but I will not
apologize forever.
393
00:18:35,656 --> 00:18:39,284
He took it so personally,
and he was just like, "Ugh!
394
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:41,411
Why do you need to
come at me like that?"
395
00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,247
"Fuck you!"
396
00:18:43,288 --> 00:18:44,706
Fuck you for saying that.
397
00:18:44,748 --> 00:18:46,208
My response to him
after that was like,
398
00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:48,627
I feel like no
matter what I do,
399
00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:50,629
how
much I give, how...
400
00:18:50,671 --> 00:18:53,132
-Yes.
401
00:18:53,173 --> 00:18:55,467
I mean, there's
something of a classic dynamic,
402
00:18:55,509 --> 00:19:00,472
which is like the more she
aggresses and goes after him,
403
00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:02,224
the more he retreats.
404
00:19:02,266 --> 00:19:03,433
Yeah.
405
00:19:03,475 --> 00:19:04,893
And the
more he retreats,
406
00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:07,437
the more she feels like
she needs to go find him.
407
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,064
Yes.
408
00:19:09,106 --> 00:19:11,400
For me, that's
where it gets complicated.
409
00:19:11,441 --> 00:19:13,026
Yeah.
410
00:19:13,068 --> 00:19:16,238
Because
there's a really strong
411
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,031
sadomasochistic...
412
00:19:18,073 --> 00:19:18,907
Wow.
413
00:19:18,949 --> 00:19:20,409
...dynamic going on.
414
00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:24,663
So she gets like really mad
and really big and controlling
415
00:19:24,705 --> 00:19:25,747
in her voice.
416
00:19:25,789 --> 00:19:26,957
Yes.
417
00:19:26,999 --> 00:19:30,544
And he kind of
gets small and withdrawn,
418
00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:35,632
and she gets mean, and then
his way of responding is by
419
00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:40,095
even further kind
of withdrawing his...
420
00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:41,471
sexual attraction from her.
421
00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:42,973
Uh-huh.
422
00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:45,559
Anyway but in terms
of that dynamic between them,
423
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:49,104
I'm finding that
my regular toolbox
424
00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:51,315
is not totally relevant.
425
00:19:51,356 --> 00:19:53,192
Uh huh.
426
00:19:53,233 --> 00:19:57,154
So I have to listen in
as to when the timing is right
427
00:19:57,196 --> 00:20:00,365
to address it.
428
00:20:06,413 --> 00:20:09,208
Will, how are you
doing right now?
429
00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:13,212
I don't know...
430
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,343
I feel hopeless.
431
00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:21,803
Hopeless.
432
00:20:23,764 --> 00:20:25,641
We've been to
so many therapists,
433
00:20:25,682 --> 00:20:28,852
and it's just going through
the same thing again and again.
434
00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:31,605
And I don't think any
progress is being made.
435
00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:33,273
You know, I try to
look at myself and I try to
436
00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:35,400
change things and...
437
00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:38,403
I try to do
things differently...
438
00:20:38,445 --> 00:20:40,614
but our sex
life is absent.
439
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:44,243
Our communication
is pretty much nil.
440
00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:50,791
I don't feel like I can tell
her anything or say anything,
441
00:20:50,832 --> 00:20:52,417
but I think it has to
do with the fight we had
442
00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:54,419
just a few days ago.
443
00:20:54,461 --> 00:20:57,589
You know, I
just asked her if...
444
00:20:57,631 --> 00:20:59,341
you know, if she was
okay if I went to play golf
445
00:20:59,383 --> 00:21:02,427
with my friend...
446
00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:06,431
and somehow
that turned into,
447
00:21:06,473 --> 00:21:09,393
"I always choose
other people over her."
448
00:21:09,434 --> 00:21:11,770
It's just, like, a
moment of realization for me.
449
00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:14,398
-Of?
-It's like...
450
00:21:14,439 --> 00:21:17,776
all I did was
ask to go play golf,
451
00:21:17,818 --> 00:21:22,281
and in your mind,
452
00:21:22,322 --> 00:21:26,285
I'm choosing
everything over you.
453
00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,789
Like, how do you...
454
00:21:30,831 --> 00:21:32,291
reason with that?
455
00:21:32,332 --> 00:21:36,670
How do you have any kind of
logical conversation about that?
456
00:21:39,339 --> 00:21:41,758
That's just golf.
457
00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:45,095
There's so many deeper
issues I want to talk about
458
00:21:45,137 --> 00:21:47,514
that I can't.
459
00:21:50,726 --> 00:21:53,520
Where are you?
460
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:55,981
I'm
listening to him and...
461
00:21:56,023 --> 00:21:57,649
She's thinking I'm a
crybaby is what she's thinking.
462
00:21:57,691 --> 00:22:00,110
I'm trying not to come
up with a snide remark.
463
00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:01,903
But you have
an impulse to do that?
464
00:22:01,945 --> 00:22:03,280
Yeah.
465
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:05,824
I do in the
sense that, you know,
466
00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:07,284
in response to what he's saying,
467
00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:09,828
how do I work
with someone who's
468
00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,121
always a victim?
469
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,999
Okay, can I tell
my part of that story?
470
00:22:14,249 --> 00:22:16,335
How would you
respond if all the times,
471
00:22:16,376 --> 00:22:19,338
you know, went off about how you
feel about me leaving to Korea,
472
00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:22,090
if I was just like, "Oh,
stop playing the victim."
473
00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:24,509
Like, how the fuck
would that make you feel?
474
00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:29,848
I feel like there's a lot
of he said/she said, right?
475
00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:31,308
Mm-hm.
476
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:32,684
And there's a lot, "Okay,
well, this is his perception.
477
00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:35,520
This is his, um,
view of what happened."
478
00:22:35,562 --> 00:22:37,522
And then I have my
view of what happened.
479
00:22:37,564 --> 00:22:40,359
But what's missing is the...
480
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,153
Some kind of theory that will
help you understand what's the
481
00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:43,904
dynamic.
482
00:22:43,945 --> 00:22:45,155
Exactly, yeah.
483
00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:48,367
So one of the things we've
talked about is you're already
484
00:22:48,408 --> 00:22:52,829
deeply stuck in the groove where
you'll start with an assault.
485
00:22:52,871 --> 00:22:54,164
Right.
486
00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:57,584
Now, we know already that
underneath the assault, you're--
487
00:22:57,626 --> 00:23:00,295
there's all sorts
of feelings of hurt,
488
00:23:00,337 --> 00:23:02,506
-of vulnerability, betrayal--
-Yeah, correct.
489
00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:04,674
That it's hard
for you to sit with,
490
00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:07,469
so you launch an assault.
491
00:23:07,511 --> 00:23:09,304
Yeah.
492
00:23:09,346 --> 00:23:14,393
And your response to that is to
enter some state of helplessness
493
00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:17,729
and trying to comply,
494
00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:19,815
trying to appease,
495
00:23:19,856 --> 00:23:22,818
but really you're retreating.
496
00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:26,154
You're just trying
to minimize damage.
497
00:23:26,196 --> 00:23:27,823
Mm-hm.
498
00:23:27,864 --> 00:23:32,411
Which leaves you
further abandoned,
499
00:23:32,452 --> 00:23:36,581
and what do you know how to
do when you feel abandoned?
500
00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:38,917
Attack.
501
00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:40,001
And fight, yeah.
502
00:23:40,043 --> 00:23:42,379
And what happens
when you attack?
503
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:45,006
You feel helpless...
504
00:23:45,048 --> 00:23:47,175
retreat.
505
00:23:47,217 --> 00:23:50,429
So that's your
dance at the moment.
506
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,433
And you're
exhausted by it.
507
00:23:54,474 --> 00:23:57,477
I've
been exhausted.
508
00:23:58,478 --> 00:24:00,230
But something's
keeping you together.
509
00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:01,523
I don't know what.
510
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:03,817
This is what I keep digging for.
511
00:24:03,859 --> 00:24:05,819
This is what I
keep thinking about.
512
00:24:05,861 --> 00:24:09,406
So, we can do
all sorts of things.
513
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:12,784
You can tell me that
you're tired of it,
514
00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:14,828
you want to break up.
515
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:15,996
Hm.
516
00:24:16,037 --> 00:24:18,039
We can try to
understand how
517
00:24:18,081 --> 00:24:20,417
each of you
got so deep
518
00:24:20,459 --> 00:24:23,795
into this
particular position.
519
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:27,299
I'd want to hear something
about your family histories.
520
00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:29,050
I feel like, you know,
everyone always wants to talk
521
00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:30,302
about my family.
522
00:24:30,343 --> 00:24:30,969
I don't have the best
relationship with them,
523
00:24:31,011 --> 00:24:34,639
granted, but I felt
like that is something I've
524
00:24:34,681 --> 00:24:37,642
dealt with earlier on,
like, in my early 20s.
525
00:24:37,684 --> 00:24:39,478
Right, but
just so you know,
526
00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:41,480
I'm not imagining doing
reparative work on your
527
00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:42,898
relationship
with your family.
528
00:24:42,939 --> 00:24:44,316
Right.
529
00:24:44,357 --> 00:24:46,818
What I'm imagining is that
maybe each of you can understand
530
00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:51,865
a little bit why you're so
stuck in a particular position.
531
00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:57,537
I mean, you're too good at
this role for it not to be
532
00:24:57,579 --> 00:25:00,165
well-rehearsed.
533
00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,668
Is that of interest to you?
534
00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:08,089
instrumental music
535
00:25:08,131 --> 00:25:11,635
Okay, so
where do we start?
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