The Man in the Mirror

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If your anger told the full truth, who would it expose?

This is kind of an open ending question; one that really depends on the circumstances. I mean, in some cases, your anger can be directed outward at another person, such as the perpetrator of a crime or an attack against you.

But more often than that, I think, if my anger told the full truth, it would probably expose me, maybe more than anyone else.

The Mirror or the Finger?

It’s interesting that I came across this prompt today. On Thursday afternoon, I was working on the next episode of my podcast for a little bit. And of course, I went down the rabbit hole of my divorce. Well, it’s not really a topic that I plan on getting into in that particular podcast episode, I did start taking myself back, emotionally, speaking, to those first days when I left South Carolina for the last time.

14 Years of Distance

I have actually reconciled a lot of the sometimes misplaced anger and animosity towards X1. Being almost 14 years removed from the situation now, I’m able to look back on a more objectively. While I believe that it takes two people to ruin a perfectly good marriage, I think I am more willing to accept responsibility for my actions, or like, when it came to my marriage. There are certainly things I could’ve done differently. OK, a lot of things I could’ve done differently. But I also know that that was the first time in my life that I really was starting to address my mental health – specifically my anxiety and bouts of depression. and I’m not blaming your scapegoating if my mental health for the things that I could’ve done differently and should’ve done differently. But I know that I wasn’t always necessarily in my right headspace. And next one’s defense, if I was still trying to figure out what I needed to work on, mentally, how could she possibly have been equipped to even support me on that endeavor?

I’m not really in the mood to run down a list of everything that went wrong in my marriage right now. However, if you are interested in another post where I came to some of these realizations, click here for “my anxiety ruined my marriage“

But to answer today’s prompt, if my anger told the full truth, a lot of times it would expose the guy looking back at me in the mirror.

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