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Debra Kirk's avatar

I am praying for your healing of yourself and knowing you are blessed and beautiful inside and out. I have not known you very long but I can see with my eyes that you are a very kind person and will help others if known what is needed. I am so sorry for your first marriage not turning out to be amazing for you and him. But you both gave the world amazing daughter that knows her parents love her and will always be there for her if needed in her lifetime. It’s not easy to share your child with the man that tore your life in pieces. But be thankful you had parents that loved you also so you became a postive woman to bring Lisa up in the world of Love , happiness, and being truthful to herself each day .

Thanks for your kindness to me when you were Waco. Hope to see y’all again in the future.

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Oh, thank you for your nice comment, Debra! I was happy to finally meet you, too...I'm sure we'll see each other again! :)

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Steve's avatar

I have a love/hate thing with the whole nice words going around, lack of follow-through. On one hand I relate to the surface level friendliness, and find it familiar coming from the South. Other days, I want to move to Germany where everyone is 5 minutes early to any sort of meetup

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Haha yeah! I’ve mostly gotten over the lack of punctuality, though it makes me mad when it’s for official things, like showing up to the courthouse to get some paperwork and they can’t help me because all the mothers are at a special lunch for Mother’s Day, ha. Which is fine, but like, why not leave someone else temporarily in charge then? All that time lost is money lost since I’m not working when I go...

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Loretta Mitro's avatar

Best of luck to you, Sarahh. I can relate; I'm still my biggest critic! Loretta

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Phil Hutchins's avatar

Loved the content of your article and the way you write too. So totally sums up life here in Mexico

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Oh, thank you, Phil!

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Karen's avatar

I think you are very brave and self caring to go to such a distance for your therapy. The questionnaire was in English. Is it also in Spanish? If so, it would be interesting to have a copy if you can manage to put it in your blog. I have been doing couples therapy—all in Spanish— with my partner for nearly a year, and our therapist is like the one you described here! We both trust her, and it’s working! Three steps forward, one step backwards, but onward we go.

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Thank you, Karen! I actually did fill it out in Spanish...I found this one online: https://escuela.integra-terapia.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Cuestionario-de-esquemas-de-Young.pdf, though there aren't as many questions to answer...I bet your therapist would be able to get ahold of it, though! Therapy in Spanish is a whole thing, for sure!

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AT Coffey's avatar

Thanks for an insightful, personal, and helpful post.

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

You always leave me such nice comments, Allen, thank you! :)

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AT Coffey's avatar

You're welcome! You always write such well thought out and relevant articles. You should get much more attention than you do.

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Sarah DeVries's avatar

Oh yes, I remember those days! Was easy to go up, not so easy to go down! :D

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