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# Therapy 5/27/2026
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+- "She has enough information to decide how she feels. She's putting the onus of her feelings on you" SUPER HELPED.
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- Am I allowed to keep my feelings about Erin private? What does that look like
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+- Struggling with reality and perception being scrambled. Not trying to defend the legitimacy or morality of thr relationship, just reality.
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+ - goaded a few times into talking about what I like about Erin. Is that reasonable? Do I have to?
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+ - When I do talk about Erin, I get "You're wrong. You aren't seeing her clearly. She's boring and selfish. Everybody can see that except you. You only think she's interesting because she's pretty."
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- Erin was the first time I had a real sense that life did have some magic in it. Sometimes the spark is real and there are circumstances where it's not just a neverending hellscape of grim realities that you have to toughen yourself against. Sometimes the pretty girl has a soul that can recognize yours and against all odds you found her and a connection formed. What a strange life. How lucky to have found this, even if it is fleeting.
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- About connection:
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- real or imagined I still feel the thread of connection there. how?