Dear Roxanna:

I don’t have Facebook. I did click on the link and got one page with some paintings and the sketch of the chair. It says there that you studied art in Cal State Fullerton. I lived in So. CA most of my life. And someone wrote you a note there about tracing your face, meaning the person thought you look like the woman in the painting. You answered that you took enough classes to know the structure of a face. Your paintings, the few I saw, look impressive to me, not being an artist myself.

When you express your emotions in art, you are in control of your time and space. But in the relationship with your husband, you are often enough not in control, feel that he invades your space and you want to stay hidden. But when you reveal yourself he seems overwhelmed. And this is an interesting statement, most interesting to me: “I don’t know what to keep to myself or what to reveal.”

Can you think of some of the things you started to reveal to him but then stopped thinking it was too much and maybe you shouldn’t have revealed it… and should not reveal any more?

Those eyes in the painting, self portrait, what secrets do they hold?

In other words, some things, if you reveal them, it will make it less of a burden to keep them in. What may those things be?

anita