Re: Not about
Posted by Eddie on October 14, 2002 at 20:44:52:

In Reply to: Re: Not about posted by Eddie on October 14, 2002 at 06:06:36:

(< I suppose I should have said here, I do not believe.) that is always

because I’m coming from an [[[excess]]] of my essential strengths

[[[i.e.]]] my personality. Now I’m not meaning to be teaching you here

or to be condemning or punishing you for your own good. It may simply

be that I don’t have the strong tendency to be so influenced by

the “Doormat” [Type] (and I’ll add here now “The Kind Helper” Type)

aspect of my personality in this instance. And please note I am not

saying this approach (as in my more aggressive approach) is any better

than the passive approach. Only that in any given instance [[[either]]]

(of the two) could best fit a given situation. And please Coach I am

not intending to wound you here as you have always been forth-right

with owning this overly passive tendency in your own make up. <

I do not presume or perceive you to be this naive. [I feel the, “I

wasn’t but I am now syndrome coming on here now from you”.] I believe

for a large percentage of your post here you were simply grappling, and

not at all really being relaxed as you said, which neither is at all

like your essence by the way. And by the way I do agree with you that

we would, either of us, be hard pressed to jeopardize our friendship in

this way. That is if we can keep awake in this strong conversation.

I’ll even go so far to say I doubt that any “words” you could say

asleep or awake would be being able to do that. Maybe reason for pause

but not abandonment.

Now I’ll pull out some of those subtle uncomfortable times that I

believe you were being in:

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