Posts Tagged ‘self’
"Strawmen"
So, I’ve been thinking about the last post–and I think I have an insight.
I always want somebody to take responsibility for those things that I truly would like to be my responsibility… so I set someone or something as a “strawman” to be mad at about why such and such is not being done, or why I can’t do so and so–instead of figuring out for myself why I am not doing it in the first place.
It seemed to make sense as to how that related to marriage at the time I was thinking about it yesterday, and now it seems to be sort of muddled.
I guess the basic idea is that if I take on all of the housework as my responsibility, then if something truly is not possible to do, then I should work around it, and not whine to myself and others…(sigh) it seemed so much more clear earlier.
I will let this bounce around in my brain for a while and hopefully either come up with the clarity I was feeling, or come to a new insight.
