Good morning. Good Morning. So last time we talked about the difference between emotions
and feelings and then through the conversation we started talking about
lonely loneliness versus being alone so I want to kind of continue that. Yeah
this is a this is a tough topic because my observation is the vast amount of
people are lonely. Mm-hmm. And I think lonely a lot of times is we have
expectations about what should be happening what marriage should be like
what relationships should be like and
and somehow it doesn't all gel it doesn't connect and when I look at
people there's lots of people we know and do they're really outgoing they're
laughing a lot and then they commit suicide.
Right. You know it's it's like how's that possible? They have everything. They have
everything in terms of what appears to be everything. But somehow or another the
sense of internal satisfaction internal connection doesn't seem to be there. You
know and and I understand that I you know in my reality growing up there was
points in time in my high school days where I had friends and there were
points and times in when I was in politics you know elected official and
boy I had lots of room to have all kinds of connection with people and it was and
yet it was really lonely. You know there was places where I would stay home on a
Saturday night and read a book everybody thought I was in one of six different
places so but so how do you make sense of lonely to a great extent? One of the
things that I noticed particularly in relationships that we get relationships
somewhat confused and all lumped together and what it should be and you
and I have talked about this and played in this for years there's really kind of
three bubbles that if they're defined it seems to help there's a me bubble there
is a you bubble and there is a wee bubble. And they all have different
characteristics and components to them and a lot of times we get them very
confused we think you should be taking care of me. Or this is what a
relationship is, this is what a marriage is and and and my times I was the very most
lonely in my life was when I was married. Not not to you of course. Of course. But
when another marriage it was I was just very lonely and and I realized once I
learned about bubbles that there was no me bubble. Yeah, no me buble. There was no me bubble and
that's where I think a lot of times that loneliness happens is I have
expectations that you should be taking care of me or they should be doing this
and if they do this then therefore I would be happy. Or that I have the
expectation that I'm the person in the relationship to take care of the other
person. Sure so there's lots of you know assisting being nurturing being kind to
that's that's different than taking care of. But this space of bubbles is really
important so what does your me bubble look like and my me bubble has no
relationship to your you bubble. You know I like X and you don't have any
interests in X at all so when X is being demonstrated as my thing what happens
is it gets dragged into a we bubble where the other person says that's a
strange thing you're doing that's a weird thing you're doing and so all of a
sudden I stop doing my X and then you stop doing your Y and then pretty
soon we bring this down to some fictitious common denominator
where neither of us are doing what we expected. And there's a level of I think the
word is codependency -Codependency sure- that's you you are all I have.
Yeah and -There's no me -and you're not making me happy you're not doing what I want so it
gets very convoluted in how we anticipate relationships with other
people and consequently this word lonely comes into play quite often. But let's
talk about bubbles for a minute so I like X and the way that we've worked out
bubbles a lot of times you don't care for X at all -bicycling -yeah so bicycling is
not your thing and I like to go out and ride 30 40 50 miles and come back and I
enjoy myself. The way that we've related to that it's
like in terms of some of your gardening things I like gardening but -Or my dance class -or your
dance class better example so the way we've worked that out is I get really
happy and excited when you have a great day of dancing. I'm not interested in
that level of dancing but when you come back and say I did this I was really
excited I had so much fun I am happy. Yeah. You know we would take that a
little further into one of the distortions we've talked about in life
is this concept of loving somebody. And so I love you well I love you in how
most people say that is I put my love over there but in real terms when you're
happy I smile. Yes. When you're unhappy I don't smile and so if I can do something
that makes you smile then I feel good. Yes. And so in a way the
more appropriate expression is I love me when I'm with you and so why would I
beat you up and punish you and abuse you and insult you as happens and lots
of relationships -Cuz it feels yucky in your space when you do that. It feels terrible
I don't like me I'm emotion, I'm frustrated I am
in an emotion expressing something that's making you feel bad or put down.
So that space of I love me when I'm with you it gets really interesting because
if I can do something to make you laugh I feel good. Right. At the same time if I
can enjoy myself and come back and say boy I just had this great bike ride and
your response is gee I'm so excited that you're having a good time -Yeah -that's a
pretty balanced type of relationship. There are other things that are in the
we space that we don't in bring bicycling in or we bring dancing into
that space and in that we space I again don't have expectations or our
expectations are more clearly defined. This is what our we space is. Well and when
we do a we thing we verbally a lot of times say this is a we thing. Yeah.
And that and that helps us identify this bubble right just like when I do my dan-
I do my dancing and I go to see my trainer this is me time. Exactly. And and
that helps me in my mind identify oh and it helps me enjoy it a little more oh
this is a we thing. Yeah and we define it as we things we would simply say you
know we haven't been doing enough we time. Yes. You know let's do something
that's a we thing well so you know it's it's so where the focus begins to be on
what do you like what do I like what do we like. And so that aspect of loneliness
or disconnect gets interrupted I think much more effectively when there's a
sense of definition of me you and a we. Yeah. And the process of engaging with
people -and it's in that we space where you take out the me and you so it doesn't
get cluttered up and then we what do we want to do begins to be a co-creative
space rather than well I was hoping we would go to such and such you know and
it's like well okay it wasn't a we it was a obligation.
Obligation we've gotten away from the original topic of lonely so let's just
let that be and then we can you know another week we can -Well now that we've
talked I'm not lonely anymore. So lonely we can talk about a little bit more so
so that's all I know. Good. So what should we do now? Let's have
a we thing. Okay we can have a we conclusion is that okay?
Yeah. We are we are concluding now go out and have a nice we me you time and
enjoy yourself.
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