We both live with borderline trauma every second of every Day 🙄
It's hard 🩹: it makes living with others hard 💎 - even if there's deep love in the mix 👩❤️💋👨
Thank God that "love covers a multitude of sins" 💞: ego 😎, selfishness 🤠, anger 😡, spitefulness 👹 … ALL that 💔 eventually gets solved when love fights the trauma battles 💝
Our trauma triggers are very similar - abandonment 👣 (physical, emotional); character assassinations 🗣️💩; deaths 😢 (loved ones, close friends) … Holland can shut his thoughts off & pull into himself when life in his moment, get sketchy. He can also be verbally explosive 🤬, combatant 😈, and storm out of the house 😤 when his brain gets overwhelmed 🧠⚡️ - sometimes I know what causes these actions 🤔; sometimes he is dealing with past personal issues that I will never be privy too 🤷♀️, even if they are encroaching on present time 🤦🏻♀️
My mind never shuts off 🧠🙄, so I am careful what I feed 🔌 into that gray matter ticker tape. And, when things spiral out of control 😵💫, I want to settle the dust right away - I want to get right into talking things out and getting back to a settled frame of mind 🤗 If I feel (or am told) that I am being left … I will pack my stuff and be gone in a heartbeat 👣: I am done swallowing someone else's dust 👊
It took time for us to understand each other's reactions: we went through an extremely hard 30 months together as a married couple 😡😟💔😭
Moving into year 3 together, we're becoming more Intune with each other's vibes ✌️: it's a welcome place to be 💓 Verbalization is still necessary, but picking up on silent communication creates a coziness that allows love to override trauma backflash 🩹, and spread comfort 💗
It's okay 👍 - when caught in the grip of trauma trigger 🔥 - to say, "I don't want to get into it right now because things will be said and done that can't be undone or unheard; I don't want it trippin' through my thoughts or flashing before my eyes, for the rest of my Life. I love you; but I don't like you right now. I need some decompression time." 🤝🕊️
Alexithymia l 2 Be Better Podcast S2 E47:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3NoGdffFI)
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