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0.9 A hallway full of boxes
I’ve had this in draft for a long time and it was the most difficult post to write. The impact of the day was almost too much for me and I only just made it through. After 35 years together, what remains is more than two people – it is an edifice. How we take…
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011. Taysie
The Myers Brigg personality test talks about something it calls The Grip. It is a kind of ‘stress’ & the response we have to it. My relationship with Taysie feels like that sometimes. I am in the grip of her not because she is manipulative but because of my feelings for her and their complexity.
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08. The edge of the bed
How do we end our relationships? A life lived together for so long demands a grand gesture perhaps. Or maybe, like everything else, it emerges from the mundane, an everyday moment.
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0.4 The Empty Chair… Helen
The Empty Chair Technique is a therapeutic practice within Gestalt therapy, where an individual engages in a dialogue with an absent person or part of themselves, represented by an empty chair.
Messages to Nowhere: A diary of limerence 