Comments on: Whose Fault Is This Anyway? https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whose-fault-is-this-anyway Cognitive Behavioral Therapist & Author Sun, 25 Sep 2022 20:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: JShannon https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-48 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:10:33 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-48 In reply to Jennifer J Shannon.

Exactly!

]]> By: Jennifer J Shannon https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-42 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:10:40 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-42 In reply to Jennifer Robin.

Hi Jennifer! I think a lot of us experience this, whether we are wanting more space, or wanting more time with our partner, a challenge and opportunity for growth either way!

]]> By: Jennifer J Shannon https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-41 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:09:10 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-41 In reply to Susan.

Thank you Susan, is is always great to read comments and I am please this was refreshing to you!

]]> By: Jennifer Shannon https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-40 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:07:34 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-40 In reply to Gail Van Buuren.

Thank you Gail, I really liked your metaphor of letting things brew so that they are more digestible. Yes, that is pretty much how I live my life!

]]> By: Jennifer Shannon https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-39 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:04:57 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-39 In reply to Richard Tallman.

Hi Richard, always nice to hear from you. It sounds like being left was a painful experience for you and that you would leave yourself as a result. Am I understanding this correctly? I am very interested in your perspective.

]]> By: Jennifer Robin https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-38 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:24:38 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-38 Great post. I am often in a version of the same situation. Thanks!

]]> By: Susan https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-37 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 21:24:00 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-37 Thank you for this, Jennifer and the reminder that I can take these times as places for growth. I’ve had similar experiences you describe so well and it is refreshing to re-think how I can relate to them.

]]> By: Gail Van Buuren https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-36 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:41:40 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-36 Very nice and very insightful, Jennifer. Thanks for sharing just exactly how tough it is to speak your truth and then stand how it feels to others even when you have tried your best to do it in a good way. I love the way you examine all the things that come up for you and let them percolate until they are a brew you can digest. That takes courage.
All the best,
Gail

]]> By: Richard Tallman https://jennifershannon.com/whose-fault-is-this-anyway/#comment-35 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 16:51:24 +0000 https://www.jennifershannon.com/?p=1953#comment-35 Hi Jennifer, Very thoughtful and well written piece. Thank you. Being left alone is a wonderful opportunity to meditate, cook, exercise, read, whatever. It can also be very revealing as to our true nature. I have been left alone many, many times, beginning as a kid by my mother and father as they went off to work, and again as a married man. What we all discovered in this during this time is that if I am left alone too long I will leave. The experience brings out in me the desire to move, and I do. I ran away from home the first time at about ten, left permanently at seventeen and when I finally got married and was left alone — so that my wife could go visit her mother — I wound up buying a large touring motorcycle and, one day, rode away. There is a poem that comes to mind by Mary Oliver that describes my feelings at the time. It is called “The Journey”. I modified it somewhat for my own purpose. It now begins, ‘One day I finally knew what I needed to do, and began…’ It is the act of beginning that is the most important. I wish you luck and love.

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