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[mattersofscience]

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[rogueinladysclothing]

Perhaps someday. It will take time to change my habits enough to think of this ahead of speaking.

[Not an easy thing after a lifetime of being certain has told her to follow her instincts and handle everything that comes after whenever it arrives.]

[mattersofscience]

Naturally. All the same, I'd say that's one path to learning how to relinquish some responsibility for matters one person can't solve on their own.

Not that it's as easy to do as it is to say. There are many reasons total self-reliance isn't as simple as that to break down and change.

[rogueinladysclothing]

[He's not saying anything she doesn't already know. Having it thrown at her for a text she didn't send makes it more uncomfortable, though.]

Some self-reliance is important, too. To set is aside completely is to make oneself helpless.

[She refuses to feel like that again. She'd rather struggle to ask for help than be forced to give up all control and self-sufficiency in the name of getting "better."]

I do understand you mean well with pushing for me to seek out the help I inevitably need before I hit the point of struggling, but as you say, it's difficult to do. All I can do at this point is keep the idea in mind and attempt to force it to happen. All else is out of my hands until it becomes habit.

[mattersofscience]

[She doesn't seem to get it, but it's not the kind of thing that happens overnight.]

I agree; Keeping it in mind is where any self-improvement like this begins.

Whatever path you do end up walking, I wish you luck with it.

[rogueinladysclothing]

Thank you. I appreciate your point of view, and I will try to incorporate it going forward. [With however many starts and stops it takes.]

Be well, Charles. Let me know if you'd like to have a drink again sometime. I'm certain we'll speak again soon.