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how do you deal with persistent anger?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 65651" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Thanks guys, SO much..........I think I will start with every time I am reminded of the insidious damage he has done to our life - I will say some small blessing to him, or wish him well, like Nomad was saying. I do not want this to eat at me, and be allowed to fester. The really frustrating part was that I have already done this once, and I thought I had moved on. Twelve years later, after he has reentered difficult children life again, I find the anger resurrecting it's big ugly head. I had let go all that had happened from our past - but now he creating new issues and those are compounded with the old - and it is just like someone has reopened an old wound that was almost healed, but not quite, and is tearing that already tender flesh to ribbons.</p><p></p><p>I have the book The Secret, and I have been thinking a lot about what it says in there. Maybe I just need to take it one step further. Actually praying for him seems unfathomable at this point, so maybe I will start with just wishing him well. </p><p></p><p>It's like that Seinfeld issue where George's dad has been told to say serenity now whenever his wife is bugging him - remember that? But instead of calmly saying it to himself under his breath he screeches SERENITY NOW at his wife every time she is bothering him. That cracks me up every time I think of it.........Screeching good will may be the most I can do at this point as well, but at least it is a start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 65651, member: 3301"] Thanks guys, SO much..........I think I will start with every time I am reminded of the insidious damage he has done to our life - I will say some small blessing to him, or wish him well, like Nomad was saying. I do not want this to eat at me, and be allowed to fester. The really frustrating part was that I have already done this once, and I thought I had moved on. Twelve years later, after he has reentered difficult children life again, I find the anger resurrecting it's big ugly head. I had let go all that had happened from our past - but now he creating new issues and those are compounded with the old - and it is just like someone has reopened an old wound that was almost healed, but not quite, and is tearing that already tender flesh to ribbons. I have the book The Secret, and I have been thinking a lot about what it says in there. Maybe I just need to take it one step further. Actually praying for him seems unfathomable at this point, so maybe I will start with just wishing him well. It's like that Seinfeld issue where George's dad has been told to say serenity now whenever his wife is bugging him - remember that? But instead of calmly saying it to himself under his breath he screeches SERENITY NOW at his wife every time she is bothering him. That cracks me up every time I think of it.........Screeching good will may be the most I can do at this point as well, but at least it is a start. [/QUOTE]
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