Brainscan Zine #21: Irreconcliable differences

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After seeing him categoricallY lie see my counselor' I have to agree' behavior and his character because believes the Ii-es he says and that

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me.

I don't trust hls use language, I can' t trust lt becauserthasbeenusedagalnstmesofrequenLly. and We can hear the exact same sLory from some one what us ask and rooms separate into us if you take we heard you would probably get different answers ' I'm wi-lling to say that nei-ther of us are "right" for for but I feel Iike I doubt myself (for Qetter he than more lot a things worse) and question

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me

When I

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f see that he has changred in small ways even apologj-zing for t.hings he later realizes were wronE, but he still continues to cross my expressed boundaries and it makes it really hard for me to trust him. That is

example as to why f can never. trust his PercePtion wilh any.thing. an

He says that he doesn't want to qo througrh life hatlng himself for how he treated. me. completely underBtand that but, I also fee

that learning how to treat me with resPect and dealing wid,tr tris control issues doesn't stop with just me, ir carries into

To this day I stj-l-f have / s voice in the back i'f

my head asking if the box I packed is really qood enough or chastisi-ng me for the refri-gerator bei-ng open for 10 seconds in a house he doesn't even live in or w\y I have to spend money on something he would think was stupid. It is frustrating and

difficul-t years.

to get over this conditioning after six

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the rest of his life with every one he has contact wlth and he needs to l_earn how to be a compassionate and understandi-ng human even when he doesn't get his way.


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