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Does anyone else find themselves pulling away from friends?
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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 658134" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>I understand this IWP. I've done this. I do this.</p><p>I also pull away from my non-difficult children. I understand this less.</p><p></p><p>I often feel that I want to be alone. I often choose to go out alone, sit in a cafe alone, walk on a beach alone.</p><p></p><p>Alone has become my condition of choice.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't always like this. I used to seek out company. I don't know when I began yearning for solitude. Everything's easier when I'm alone. There's nothing to say. Nothing to explain. I feel exhausted sometimes when I have to have a conversation about my son or about his father or about things that happened long ago that are still weighing me down.</p><p></p><p>How's Difficult Child? people ask. "Still living in his tree" I say. That stops them. It's the end of the conversation. They're not capable of continuing a conversation that starts like that. They have no idea how to.</p><p></p><p>Then I crave the power to pull away. To find peace and solitude.</p><p></p><p>I disappear inside myself.</p><p></p><p>H asks what's wrong. "Nothing" I say. "Yes there is" he says. But there's nothing wrong that can be put right. I just want to be a recluse sometimes. It's easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 658134, member: 17650"] I understand this IWP. I've done this. I do this. I also pull away from my non-difficult children. I understand this less. I often feel that I want to be alone. I often choose to go out alone, sit in a cafe alone, walk on a beach alone. Alone has become my condition of choice. I wasn't always like this. I used to seek out company. I don't know when I began yearning for solitude. Everything's easier when I'm alone. There's nothing to say. Nothing to explain. I feel exhausted sometimes when I have to have a conversation about my son or about his father or about things that happened long ago that are still weighing me down. How's Difficult Child? people ask. "Still living in his tree" I say. That stops them. It's the end of the conversation. They're not capable of continuing a conversation that starts like that. They have no idea how to. Then I crave the power to pull away. To find peace and solitude. I disappear inside myself. H asks what's wrong. "Nothing" I say. "Yes there is" he says. But there's nothing wrong that can be put right. I just want to be a recluse sometimes. It's easier. [/QUOTE]
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