Dear Jack:

I don’t think your suggestion is weird at all. I think though that abusers and bullies don’t mean well. I think that they get their kicks by creating pain and suffering, so their reward is not a smiley face sticker, that wouldn’t do it for them. Seriously, I am not kidding here. I really do think bullies’ rewards are the very pain and suffering they cause.

What to do with them then? Yep, the only solution is destroying them. Unfortunately for me, shooting Mary in the head will cause my brain to be splattered along with her and shooting Renee in the legs will prevent any walking on my part, so there’s that. Like I wrote before: notice (becoming aware at the moment of an attack launched by let’s say Fran) and disengage, that is bringing to my mind the image of the ocean or a falling leaf (Fall now). Again and again.

I wish there was a fast and easy solution like shooting them all (throw in Norman to the mix, you know how I feel about him)- but there is none. It is the slow, slow, persistent, ongoing NOTICE-DISENGAGE-NOTICE-DISENGAGE and then… again.

anita