Shit Spraig, you get more real by the minute. That sounds like a lot to deal with.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> wrote: > > > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > > It may be someone¹s karma to suffer, but > > > we don¹t have to choose to deliver > > > it to them. On the contrary, we can make > > > it our karma to relieve them of suffering. > > > > One of my big frustrations has been my seeming > > inability to refrain from kicking people bearing > > "kick me" attitudes. I don't have a recent example, > > so maybe it's one of those undesirable behaviors > > that has fallen away due to increasing light. Dunno. > > But do you know what I mean? Has anyone here > > ever seen that someone obviously *wanted* to feel > > like a victim - that it was part of their identity (that > > nefarious instrument of ignorance, one's identity) - > > and you couldn't help but fulfill their desire by > > picking on them? > > > > I've done that, and immediately thought, "Wait, > > that's not the kind of person I want to be." But > > too late. > > > > My ex-wife was like that. AFter two weeks, we called it quits. I saw her again many years > later and she sent me a 9-page letter detailing her life after she left. It was filled with > constant beatings, first from her Dad, then from her brother-in-law, and finally from her > recently-ex husband. She was living in a halfway house for abused women when we met > on the bus 5 years after the breakup. > > I am VERY glad that she left me... > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/