Dear Caroline:

It makes my day reading your post first thing this Tuesday morning. Thank you for caring to submit this message for me, for telling me the truth about how you feel about our communication (that it was a mix of helpful and unhelpful), for telling me that you appreciate my apology, and for asking me to not feel bad. You are amazing, Caroline!

“I think I will come back but I will take a break for now“- I promise you that if and when you are back, when I respond to you, I will pay close attention to submit posts that are always gentle and kind.

“I think I am better and my girlfriend also made some changes“- good thing.. We all need to make some changes. Experiencing your kindness during our latest exchange gives me a new appreciation of you, and it motivates me to pay closer attention to all my communications with people; to consider how I may come across before expressing myself.

“but not only – I AM more active and responsive to avoid situations when I agree to things I don’t want to do.“-this is an excellent resolve! Because habits (such as agreeing to things) are hard to break, next time, when you feel that you are about to agree to something, you can tell the person that you’ll get back to them later (take a time out, out of the pressure of the moment).

Thank you again for making my day!

anita