36.It’s a good sign that this person wants you in their life.The Non-Rewritable Disc: the Fateful Impact of Childhood How a Messed up Childhood Affects You in Adulthood
Criticism When You've Had a Bad Childhood What We Owe to the People Who Loved Us in Childhood The Importance of Being an Unhappy Teenager Why We're All Messed Up By Our Childhoods The One Subject You Really Need to Study: Your Own Childhood How Unloving Parents can Generate Self-Hating Children Two Reasons Why People End up Parenting Badly Why We Sometimes Feel Like Curling Up Into a Ball How We Are Easily, Too Easily, 'Triggered' On Needing to Find Something to Worry About - Why We Always Worry for No Reason The Disaster of Anthropocentrism - and the Promise of the Transcendent
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What Is Wrong with Modern Times - and How to Regain Wisdom How To Stop Worrying Whether or Not They Like You How to Spill A Drink Down One’s Front - and Survive Spirituality for People who Hate Spirituality For Those Who (Privately) Aspire to Become More Reclusive We may need to think a bit less badly of ourselves and substantially worse of some sweet-seeming characters who claim with great sincerity to love us - and don’t. We may have to accept that the world is filled with some very dangerous people who look entirely safe to our fatefully untrained eyes. The test isn’t whether they tell us they love us, it’s how at peace they make us feel. The idea sounds yet more curious, but parents too can be adept at polishing their reputations and will insist that they are kind - while simultaneously expending enormous hostility on their thoroughly confused child.ĭespite decades of training in self-doubt, we may need to do a remarkable thing: trust in what our unhappiness is telling us about those we think of as good. Those who are most prone to being gaslit in adult love are, sadly of course, the very people who may have been gaslit by their own parents. It is so much easier for us to think that we are (as they also quickly tell us) irrationally prone to anger, over-excited, ‘insane’ and complaining for no reason - rather than deep in a relationship with a cruel soul. If we almost always pick the former, it’s because of how familiar and reassuring it is not to take our own sides. The second is to wonder whether, and how, the other person might be ill. When we meet with difficulties, we have two explanations to fall back on: the first is to doubt ourselves.
There are plenty of popular references to ‘psychos’ and ‘lunatics’ but far fewer patient analyses of how exactly other minds can be distorted and how widespread longings for vengeance may be beneath smiles and good manners. Such dark possibilities are rarely spoken of in useful terms. There are people we can take up with who have been so badly hurt by something in their early lives that they are committed to exacting revenge on anyone who comes too close to them: they may semi-consciously be seeking to exorcise on their partners a latent rage against a dead or depressed parent, they may want to punish a bullying sibling or release themselves from a sense of intolerable vulnerability created by an incident of early abuse. Yet this doesn’t mean that some very dark things can’t unfold there. However good we might be at fighting overt antagonists, many of us are constitutionally unprepared to detect ones that have entered our intimate lives we expect and can deal with enemies at the office, but the bedroom feels like a sanctum where our guard is down.
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