Guest guest Posted February 26, 2001 Report Share Posted February 26, 2001 Dear So & So. You wrote: >The power of language to hurt and inflict serious >injury is indeed great. >Thank you for demonstrating this quite effectively >in sharing your account of the sparring couple >"at each other's throats". It is about 30 years ago that my wife and me detected the sarcasm, laconic remarks, disdain, clever criticism, clever humor, traces of derision, self righteousness, etc. in our communications about and with 'just about anything'. We then started catching ourselves with a lot of compassionate humour, smiles of self understanding and forgiving ourselves, also trying to understand the dynamics of what brought us to ab-use our language. Language accompanied with unaware body language and facial expressions. It actually did not take us very long to drop it. The hardest thing was to not take the reasons for expressing ourselves the way we did, serious. When one is 'caught' either by oneself or someone else (even a loved one) one wants to defend one reactions. Once we could drop that, it went real fast and we became eventually very quiet inside and with each other. Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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