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Suzanne White Montiel Said,
February 19th, 2010 @6:18 pm  

Dear Marvin,

Seems as though you’ve gotten yourself into a complicated pickle. So complicated I’m having trouble following.

What I think has happened is that your landlord was also your lover, only his partner wasn’t too keen on it, and you also have another lover, who may or may not be cool with your relationship with your landlord/lover. And you, your lover, and the landlord/lover are all three having relations. It doesn’t matter.

Marvin, sugar, you are too old to be behaving like – and communicating as – a child.

Your landlord/lover has made it clear (if I read correctly) that he needs some time being single after a long relationship where he was expected to be monogamous but was not. He needs time to determine for himself what kind of person he wants to be in a relationship and in what kinds of relationships he wants to be.

Move on and let him come to you, being aware that he may not.

Sincerely,

Suzanne White Montiel
SF Sex and Relationships Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-14163-SF-Sex-and-Relationships-Examiner

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February 19th, 2010 @6:11 pm  

How do you do it? Easy; Get over yourself.

More specifically, realize to your core that there is no such thing as permanence or security in life. You have breathtakingly little control over your life and the things and people in your life. This loss of control extends even to your own life because the fact is that you may not even be alive long enough to read this reply or do anything about it.

Once you internalize your utter inability to control any of the impermanent, ephemeral things in your life (including your life itself), you will come to realize that you have been trying to exert control where none exists and that you have also been identifying yourself and basing your love of self on these impermanent things. You have been doing what I call identifying yourself with externalities. That is a clear road to ruin because when these externalties go away or change (as they are guaranteed to do) then a part of your identity gets lost in the process.

Solution?

Let go!

Lose the need to value yourself, identify yourself, or attach yourself to anything or anyone. Realize that there is NOTHING intrinsically good or bad about anything whatsoever. All there are is a set of arbitrary labels. Lose the labels.

How?

By developing what I call a “conscious interrupt” that literally stops your brain in its tracks when something happens, reminds you that all around you is merely a transient externality, and then makes the conscious decision how to respond emotionally and otherwise.

Which is a long way of saying, “if you love something set it free.”

Including yourself.

If you truly loved yourself, then none of this drama would matter to you in the slightest because you would always be strong and secure in yourself and in your own value. You would see this situation as the externality that it is, decide how to respond, let the cards fall where they may, and see the blessing in any outcome… because while nothing is intrinsically ever good or bad, everything is a blessing, if you choose to see it that way.

Read http://positivitee.blogspot.com/2008/01/chinese-proverb.html.

Anthony Hernandez
http://www.theenlightenedsavage.com

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