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What Does The Phrase Walking On Eggshells Mean?

What Does The Phrase Walking On Eggshells Mean?
The phrase "walking on eggshells" means to be extremely careful about what you say or do around someone because they are known to be easily upset, offended, or angered. On the contrary, this cautious behavior is also intended to avoid conflict or a negative reaction much like one would tread carefully to avoid breaking fragile eggshells. Last but not least, this phrase is often even used to describe relationships where one person feels a constant sense of tension and fear.

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I am https://approachable.I know a gossip and I am, not, to them.#CBT

I never enjoyed sitting around people who, judge,mock,belittle,put down,criticize and try to discredit people, for having a seperate life experience, difficult upbringing and outloud bigots, gross. I do have an extremely low tolerance for juveniles relationships,with coy and flat https://affect.I do have a sense of humor,darker than some anticipate.
I am approachable, if you are genuine, kind and https://forthcoming.I will make you uncomfortable, if you are on script,fake and an accomplice.

I do not have time and grace for those with malicious https://intent.And those that have attempted to puposefully put me there, I am not, who I was, then As, none of us https://are.I am all the names you have been using,plus more, just like your daughters and https://grandmothers.I am all the rage, anger and regret, you've been told, to be https://quiet.I am every bit, in tuned to the game, that has been played on https://me.I am sorry and relieved, I am better than before.And, I remember all of https://it.For that, I am https://grateful.Keep trying though.

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My faults#DBT #CBT #

I write as a way to express https://myself.I do not have anyone to talk to on a regular https://basis.Ive been told, I like to hear my own voice, that one hurt. I have my art, writing,my son, my pets and small https://goals.I do not have friends anymore. When your health flips, your mind goes whppidy doo, https://too.Then your mental health becomes, top priority and it is not easy, at https://all.There is no faking https://it.I realized, a few years ago, I had less than a https://handful.I depended too much on my spouse,one friend,who actually didnt even like me and a https://frenemy.I do consider, a group of women, I shared a classroom with,my lead teachers, my https://friends.All of our lives, are busy, but that bond,will never sever for https://me.I have had enough, of
Relatives who are nice to my face but gossip when I https://left.I found, a majority of people in my world, did that, to https://everyone.Certain ones, have spent yheir entire lives spreading a narrative.So, I removed myself. I only became more aggressive and outside my character.
I cannot grow when all around me stays, as https://is.I cannot be,the only one looking for growth, accountability and change, to only be met with stonewalling and https://defensiveness.To expect someone to have a expiration date, to their own discovery, is wrong.in two months, you must be https://healed.Are you serious!

Not knowing the layers of trauma, a person has been through,is why, you don't play judge and Jury, to someone elses experience.
You sit with them, learn, at their pace, what is unraveling and https://why.Not set up to destruct to https://rebuild.That is playing with an order, already set, that noone but that individual, can https://dismantle.You are doing a disservice to your loved one, if you think, you know best.you only know, your perception, not theirs.

If You, will not, by choice,communicate, answer openly, or share insightful thoughts, engage and be vulnerable,I do not want to be around you.

If you, chastise,shame and belittle me, for my past, to https://others.I do not want you,in my life or around me or mine.You're toxic and talk poisons, not support.

I want open minded,pure heart,self aware, no shame and no more $$ transactional relationships.
If you give me a gift, do not hold it over me, later, to get something you https://want.I do not keep score with kindness.

I am done with petty jaded gossip,enabling meanness and https://ugliness.And if Im a bitch for it, please, call me a https://bitch.My boundaries, have turned me into the https://asshole.I understand this.

I am bullying the https://bully.Im sick of watching people get away with mocking, belittling and denying someone elses struggles and https://experience.Who does that?

Projecting your inadequacy on to me, is weak and goes unwarranted.
I am good alone, when the company, you keep, stabs its own on the regular.
Sometimes loyalty protects those for shame and for history sake, rather true character. I will find out more as the weeks go https://on.I will keep writing, resting and building. All I can https://do.I will not be forced to "heal" at anyone, elses https://pace.When you delay the process,hiding truths, you compound the fall. And I wont apologize for being transparent, because I was.
I will not pander, to hiding parts of myself, for a couple people to feel comfortable with their own https://issues.Stay in your own lane, even when invited.

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I didn't realize until last night what it feels like to be safe again. I didn't even realize I hadn't been feeling safe for the past 2 years. I didn't realize someone doesn't have to hit you for it to be an abusive relationship, although I was always scared he would. There is a thin line between love and hate. And once he realized I was leaving, the mask fell and I saw who he's always been. I don't deny the mistakes I've made, I've even sat down to apologize, but my kindness is usually taken advantage of. I was trying to be the bigger person, but he's forced me out of the house because my mental health has declined so rapidly living with him. I could really use some encouragement today. I have to go back to grab my cats and I'm scared.

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All About Emotional Intelligence

All About Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI), or Emotional Quotient (EQ), is the ability to understand, manage, and use one’s own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of others. It has many benefits such as an enhanced work performance, stronger relationships, as well as better communication and decision making skills. Lastly, the components of Emotional Intelligence include self-awareness or the ability to recognize one’s own emotions, how they affect one’s behavior, their strengths, and their weaknesses, self-regulation or the ability to manage one emotions and impulses, think before acting, and regulate your emotional responses, motivation or a drive to achieve goals for reasons other than external rewards such as money or status, empathy or the ability to understand the emotions and perspectives of others and to respond appropriately and social skills or the ability to build and maintain relationships, communicate effectively, manage conflict, and work with others.

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I'm proud of myself today. I don't like asking for help because I don't want to be a bother, a mooch, or be seen as weak. I decided to finally talk to my family about my situation and they all said they would help. All I kept thinking before was that everyone would be annoyed and not want to help. In reality, they all asked me why I didn't reach out sooner. I felt like I deserved all the mistreatment and harsh words I was receiving, but I know all people make mistakes. I surely have, but I am trying to tell myself this applies to me. It's easy to tell someone else, but I don't always think it applies to me. I'm trying to work on loving myself now that I'm out of my abusive relationship

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I found this on facebook, written by a user called Narcissist's Daughter.
#CPTSD
They sell healing like a destination. Get therapy, do the work, cross the finish line, declare yourself healed; congratulations, you're fixed. That's not how trauma works and it's certainly not how recovering from a narcissistic mother works. Healing is less like climbing a mountain with a summit and more like walking a spiral staircase where you keep passing the same windows, seeing the same view, except each time you're higher up and the perspective has shifted. You're not going in circles; you're going in cycles and there's a difference.​

You'll think you've processed the abandonment, made peace with her inability to love you properly, built boundaries, moved on and then something will trigger it again and you're back in that familiar grief. Except you're not actually back. You're revisiting it with tools you didn't have before, awareness you've earned through years of healing and a nervous system that can hold what would have destroyed you the first time through. The wound looks the same because it's the same source, but you're meeting it as a different person now. That's not regression. That's integration.​

The deeper layers don't reveal themselves until you're strong enough to handle them. Your psyche is protective, it won't show you the full extent of the damage whilst you're still trying to survive it. So you heal one layer, feel like you've arrived, start building your life and then boom, another level unlocks. More memories. Deeper understanding of how her behaviour shaped you. New awareness of patterns you've been unconsciously replicating. It feels like failure because you thought you were done, but it's actually your system finally trusting you enough to go deeper.​

This cyclical process is exactly how complex trauma heals. Safety and stabilisation, then processing, then integration and then back around again when new layers emerge or old wounds get triggered by new life circumstances. Each cycle isn't starting from zero; it's building on everything you've already learnt. You're not losing progress, you're deepening it. The fact that you're encountering these wounds again means you're alive, you're growing, you're in relationships and situations that are bringing up what still needs attention.​

Integration isn't about making the trauma disappear. It's about weaving it into your story in a way that doesn't control your life anymore. Understanding that healing is cyclical frees you from the expectation that you should be "over it" by now. You're not meant to be over it, you're meant to be moving through it, returning to it when necessary, extracting new wisdom each time. That's not failure. That's exactly how healing is supposed to work.

#healingiscyclical #notlinear #integration #deeperlayers #revisitingwithawareness #notfailure #complextraumahealing #spiralnotcircle

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Im not going anywhere# cptsd#munipulation #Abuse

Well,no, I will not be quiet about whats has been done.Let's talk about, letting the cat out of the https://bag.Two strangers in one day tell me I need a police report and, joking a restraining order.
Then this https://morning.I did not expect a genuine bomb like that to be dropped in my https://lap.And then the reaction to follow, https://BOOM.The ringleader, taken a fckn https://bow.Damage control time, I suppose and right before the holidays.
Amazing that a charade, could bring so many munipulative players together.my therapist warned me,of it two years ago, I couldn't accept https://it.This is typical behavior, nothing original or out of the ordinary, I was told.

It does show the depth a man will go to for a
$$. I never wanted https://it.Dont be https://fooled.I didn't.They, have alot to loose. That is the grossest part, no admittance of guilt, nothing.im not going to be the scapegoat here, sorry.
I let myself, anger fly, gave myself permission, over the past https://year.There is a process and I had to learn that only, no one to participate with, big learning curve.
I have, lost it, here a few times,where I feel it was out of control, ranting, ruminating, mad scientists https://level.But this, https://no.One sentence, the other jumped.Wow.
I have every right to be angry, that I was phased out, without being https://told.A narrative was laid out, three years ago and this past year, has been strung very tight, between certain players and this morning, the biggest clown in the circus show, blew that up.
I am disgusted with All https://involved.Not one person, I hurt personally nor havs anyone ever spoken, to me.no https://attempt.This will not be going away, people will be hurt that should not have, been,involved.

I will happily remove myself when Im ready and able, but again, I won't be quiet, just to make you https://comfortable.You all, had time and opportunity to communicate, with me, with words.
Instead, you chose to gather up the masses, the $$ and the bottom https://feeders.Thanks for showing me true character, I am relearning that,by example and https://pettiness.I am not surprised how quick life, takes things from you, when you are forthcoming. I lived https://it.It was all Not who brought the narrative, he was ashamed and embarrassed of https://us.And his actions have proven https://that.I have a memory that likes to fckin boomerang me https://back.I hate https://it.When the entire picture flashes in front of you, its nauseous, surreal,numbing and https://paralyzing.And in my situation, I feel https://paralyzed.And I do understand now, that was the intent, the intended impact.id be without control, without choice, isolated and stuck.to intentionally put someone, who is already, vulnerable, in that position, is not love, that is not care. I am disappointed in every person, that said they were there for https://me.No.I do not see it.
I did tell the https://truth.And I am Still, being punished for https://it.I did get through it, https://alone.I did reach https://out.I did show https://up.I did ask for https://clarity.I did give https://grace.I was and am grateful, for my life, my son and his future.
Oh, but I wanted to know how, where and who?
I wanted to know who,is involving my,family? Who is, manipulating my Son?Why, are there so many involved?But Im wrong? NO. Im asking valid questions.im questioning why I was not told, a https://thing.Why was I being lied https://to.Why I have a fake phone line between her and I?
Common denominator means what? I am dealing with extremely dark triad personality stuff here and Im not going to sit by and ignore my life being https://taken.Why anyone would go behind my back, to have relationships with my Sons kid, thats their character flaw, not https://mine.To insert yourself between two people, who should be getting acquainted, is sick .Her, who has been plotting against me for the last, three https://years.Who told me to come to her when, things get bad?She https://did.Then uses it as https://amunnition.Trashes your entire being and then goes after https://family.Stay away from woman, who maliciously Hurt and Gossip, other https://women.Ecspecially the ones that go after their Own, to protect their image.

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