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Mind Reader
What you aren’t telling them they can’t hear.
Just say it! Go ahead, get it off your chest.
I can’t! It makes me feel nauseous to even think about it. It’s nothing, I always do this. Sometimes I can be a bit much. I just need to let things be, just like she told me. It’s OK if she doesn’t say she loves me. She said we have to take it slow. We are trying to rebuild what we started a year ago after we were both coming out of very abusive relationships. Little did we know the abuse would follow us into what we thought was “different.”
You know, there are times she has said she loves me.
She said it a lot in the beginning before everything happened. Man that attention she would give me non-stop felt great. See, I am trying to be more understanding. I’m trying to see where she is coming from. I often ask her what she needs, but she never tells me. The subject of question never gets addressed, but the delicate dance shes does around what I asked allows the issue to be buried into the back of Carl’s psyche. It is never directly addressed. She has a lot of anxiety and I don’t want to push her.
See, Carl is an over thinker
Carl can look at any discrepancy in a story, or feeling from 100 different angles, and still none of it will make sense. Carl seems to…
