girldetective

Hello some of my people, maybe.

This is important to me.

I have been quite sensitive the last few months. For good cause or not, my feelings are hurt over and over again.

My normal behavior is to leave a situation or a person when they hurt me. I am well known to do this. I begin to feel trapped and I up and go in the middle of a movie, a snowstorm, or dinner. However, now Mary has hurt me, deeply. I dont want to give up and leave her. I love her, yet my most basic instinct is to go my own way.

My question seems simple, but Im having difficulty: What to do with hurt feelings? They dont stay compartmentalized and they get added on to, like a ch-ch-chain. Talking about them with her seems awkward and will just lead to more hurt feelings, I afraid. In the past, I have overlooked them or used humor, but not this time. This time the chain is around my neck and Im breathing hard.

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