Day 721 (24 of 30) - It's just a Tantrum
The beautiful thing about having a reaction towards what someone else is doing is that is so CLEARLY shows you to yourself. I had a reaction towards my partner in how I viewed him relating to our son who was experiencing a fever. I reacted to how he was "babying" him, and acting like he couldn't do anything else except be by his side. To me, this was not serving our son as it was disempowering for him because my partner was victimizing him. The truth is, whether he was doing that or not, I had a reaction to it. I got upset; I wanted to lash out, I wanted to push him to stop, I was the one judging. So then, after some moments of reflecting, I could see I was, in fact, the one that has participated in such patterns. When we got our dog Hazel almost 7 years ago, I was always seeing her from the perspective of "something is wrong with her," feeling sorry for her and seeing her in a disempowered way. I've also participated with that pattern in relation to ...