Six Sentence Sunday
Jan. 29th, 2023 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsSix Sentence Sunday: Post six sentences from whatever you're working on, if you're game!
[Carl is the therapist I was seeing with my former friend, as we tried to communicate through the dissolution of our friendship.]
So you got Carl to believe—for some version of "believe"—that my husband wanted to be with you and not with me. What position did that put you in? It reminds me of the time my two-year-old, after finishing her broccoli, came over to me and asked, "Can I sit in your lap?" And I said no, I wanted to eat my broccoli myself. So she turned to her dad and asked, "Can I sit in her lap?" He doesn't have the power to make that happen for you, honey. He just doesn't.
[Carl is the therapist I was seeing with my former friend, as we tried to communicate through the dissolution of our friendship.]
So you got Carl to believe—for some version of "believe"—that my husband wanted to be with you and not with me. What position did that put you in? It reminds me of the time my two-year-old, after finishing her broccoli, came over to me and asked, "Can I sit in your lap?" And I said no, I wanted to eat my broccoli myself. So she turned to her dad and asked, "Can I sit in her lap?" He doesn't have the power to make that happen for you, honey. He just doesn't.