Also, notwithstanding the number of brilliant people who have been called crazy in the past, just because people say you're crazy doesn't mean you're right.
True 'nuf. Given my family history and my personality and god knows what else, it's taken me a long time to figure that one out, and to act on it, i.e. establishing boundaries about how I allow myself to be treated.
So the corollary might be something like...
Just because you're empathic and understanding, you don't have to be a doormat.
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Date: 2008-03-15 05:23 pm (UTC)icon.
today.
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Date: 2008-03-15 08:34 pm (UTC)Well, maybe excepting the Texas legal argument, "He needed killin'."
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Date: 2008-03-16 06:50 pm (UTC)So the corollary might be something like...
Just because you're empathic and understanding, you don't have to be a doormat.
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Date: 2008-03-18 03:05 am (UTC)