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Originally Posted by ratbastid
You mind is a bad neighborhood. Don't go there alone.
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I find this amusing because I spent all of last summer working in bad neighborhoods alone (albeit during morning/daylight hours) and didn't feel terribly insecure. External circumstances never bother me much; it takes a lot to make me scared/nervous about anything.
But my own mind and emotional reactions do worry me, at times. Sometimes I don't like being alone in my own head, because it *is* a kinda bad neighborhood. I have had unhealthy thought processes, and usually the only way to correct them is to get them the hell out of my own head and on the table with another human being.
Bad neighborhood or not, I just don't think introversion does much good for anyone, man or woman, when strong feelings and emotional reactions to another person are at stake. We have all got to learn to communicate these things in a helpful, constructive manner, as Charletan exemplifies. Talking, talking, and more talking. And nope, the work never ends. I don't think it ever should, really... that would spell the end of growth for any couple.