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Because there's another step after we stuff the anger down and smile.
And that step is however we attempt to get rid of the angry feelings - because they can't stay stuffed forever.
Usually, we'll try a "discussion" about "what happened."
Or we'll try to make sure the same circumstances that made us so angry NEVER happen again.
Or - and this is what most ALWAYS happens - we shut down inside. We go COLD. We shut out our man.
And this is serious DRAMA, even though it might not seem like it.
And it's the most damaging Drama we can do.
Doing this kind of Drama is so damaging because we're usually not even aware of it.
We can't quite put our finger on what's wrong - we can't even feel how we've become defensive and shut down - sometimes even numb.
But we become "inauthentic" by smiling when anyone who can read "vibes" (our man is much better at this than we give him credit for) can tell we're not actually "happy," then we shut him out of our hearts.
And then he goes cold and distant, and then the whole cycle starts over again...
...with the original anger NEVER, EVER seeing the light of day - just the DRAMA.
We may cry alone, in our own homes or in the bathroom of a home we share with our man - but we never let him see our tears because we've already gone so far past the original emotion and so far into Drama that we feel terrified we'll "scare him away."
And we likely would - because men ARE scared by DRAMA.
All this happens because we can't bear to FEEL our anger.
All this DRAMA happens because we think it's our EMOTIONS that will scare a man away.
So - how do we start to fix this?
Try this Tool: ONE FAUCET.
Here's how it works:
Most of us think that we have a lot of different emotional "faucets" - one for tears, one for anger, one for joy...but it doesn't work that way.
If you have any of my programs, then you know about "The Soup" - where all our emotions are, altogether.
Well, if the "faucet" is the direct line from the Soup of our emotions to our hearts and minds and bodies and words- and all the emotions in the soup are in there together...
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