Our Crucible
Me Tried to call you back Did electricity go out for you too? Rose That's why I didn't try to share initially the impact because you end up angry at me in response and proceed to hang up rather than just apologizing and acknowledging what would have been a crappy experience so I end up feeling worse than if I don't bring things up. Me I get mad that there is no room in your life for other people's (my) experiences, surprises, unexpected turns of events. There's no flexibility for anything else to come up if it's not centered around you. Rose There is room. I've accepted loads of things that are your experiences. It's just asking you to apologize and acknowledge when there's an impact that hurts me. Why is that never allowable and not something I should need Me Something happened that was alarming. I interrupted our conversation to tell you about it. I then briefly calmed my daughter's anxiety about it. I then immediately went back to talking to ...