Comments | silence395: Repetition Compulsion

silence395

Repetition Compulsion

Jul 22, 2009 20:23

It's the drive (usually unconscious) to recreate negative or traumatic circumstances from your past into your present. It's why abused children grow up to marry abusers. The idea is that this time around you will fix it. It's not always that dramatic, though ( Read more... )

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bookery July 23 2009, 01:38:41 UTC

Now I'm all worried and trying to think back to conversations I had with you. One of my friends up here is a professional mediator & tends to both talk right over you *and* interrupt. It's awfully frustrating. And I know I have a... forceful conversational style. So if I'm one of the interrupters, I really apologize.

I will leave you with my favorite knock-knock joke:

Knock knock
Who's there?
Interrupting cow
Interrupting c- MOO

silence395 July 23 2009, 02:28:13 UTC

I promise that the point of this wasn't to make people feel guilty. I just don't like how my issues with my mother seem to bleed into other aspects of my life. Freud would be so smug...