Gaulish Bard
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I'll tell you explicitly why I'm asking. Staring down my 32nd birthday now, it occurs to me that I am alone, besides my family and a few choice friends I've had since adolescence. I've enjoyed my solitude greatly throughout my 20s--many of my affairs having left me burned. But now things are a little different. I was vacant at the wrong moment this past year, letting a lady I was really starting to like, and who by all appearances was really starting to like me, slip away from me.
Well, since that happened, I've been castigating myself, wondering how I could sleep at the switch so when I was taking every effort not to. More broadly, though, it looks to me that I'm coming to fail the challenges of this stage. At this supposedly joyous time of year, that's quite poignant. Or maybe I just misconstrue it.
So, I ask if someone who knows Erickson's theory very well could perhaps explain this conflict better to me, perhaps making it even applicable to my own situation?
Thanks in advance.
Well, since that happened, I've been castigating myself, wondering how I could sleep at the switch so when I was taking every effort not to. More broadly, though, it looks to me that I'm coming to fail the challenges of this stage. At this supposedly joyous time of year, that's quite poignant. Or maybe I just misconstrue it.
So, I ask if someone who knows Erickson's theory very well could perhaps explain this conflict better to me, perhaps making it even applicable to my own situation?
Thanks in advance.