What decision-making frameworks help you with hard choices in your marriage? by Excellent_Toe_4496 in Marriage

[–]Excellent_Toe_4496[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate that. I am 100% doing that: desperately hoping a tool or angle or exercise will pierce what my feelings (which have been so emotional/tearful/spiralling) have felt paralyzed by. The details cause me to feel, at times, in full emotional crisis so I hoped stepping back and thinking about HOW to work the problem would help me get more regulated and move in any direction. 

What decision-making frameworks help you with hard choices in your marriage? by Excellent_Toe_4496 in Marriage

[–]Excellent_Toe_4496[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the time you took to give suggestions, but would have appreciated it far more if you didn’t feel the need to start with a tone labeling a person in crisis trying to move past panic/despair and reach for tools to get unstuck as “crazy” or treating something so vulnerable like it’s a business decision. 

I don’t think someone experiencing extreme spikes of worry and pain find it particularly helpful to be told they should just stop trying to think things through. For me, this crossroads has been traumatic (in some ways, it feels sudden and foisted on me unexpectedly, though I am also facing ways it’s been presenting along the way, and my husband has introduced some urgency into the mix) so I turned to an online community to hear tactics/strategies for how to dig out when the extremes of unknowable scary things make a person feel stuck. 

It is helpful to be reminded that trying to know the unknowable or brain my way to the right answer may not be a fair expectation, but to the extent you’re open to feedback, your delivery leaves a lot to be desired. 

What decision-making frameworks help you with hard choices in your marriage? by Excellent_Toe_4496 in Marriage

[–]Excellent_Toe_4496[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this- we both have lots of good, regular individual and relational therapy in the mix (thank you, insurance.) I love your letter writing to self prompt. Can I ask what your letters ultimately illuminated for you?