Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Thank you. Last evening I was in a meeting that discussed knowing God’s will and making decisions. When the opportunity came for me to share my thoughts on the topic I shared from my experience, strength and hope.
Let me share what I discovered through my process of awareness, acceptance and action.
For many years I saw and interpreted life in black and whites / all or none. Coupled with my black and white / all or none perspective I carried an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. I carried this overdeveloped sense of responsibility because I believed that I did not just make mistakes, but I believed that I was a mistake.
Because I believed that I was a mistake, I bought into the notion that I needed to be more than in all of my relationships – to make up for not being enough. Consequently, in my over developed sense of responsibility I strove to take care of people emotionally. I did so and went to great lengths to do so — in an attempt to prove my worth and value…
and to prove that I was not a mistake.
In my efforts to prove that I was not a mistake, I attempted to control my relationships through my participation in a dance. The steps of the dance became all too familiar as I sought to execute the steps of the dance in all of my relationships. In the process of participating in the dance, each of my relationships took on a familiar form.
The form involved that of an emotional gauntlet, which invariably brought about drama and crisis into each relationship.
Please read Part 2 for context. Thank you.
If you have not already read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 of this series please take the time to do so my friend. Thank you.
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