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Post by serenity on Mar 10, 2020 0:38:45 GMT
I suppose you would need to be mindful that whatever he's doing, may not be about anyone else? He might be just doing his thing, without considering others at all.
But if you're feeling that's not the case, it could be you're experiencing "transference"? Some people, especially schizoids and those on the spectrum, project feelings they wish to disown onto those around them. It works something like this: ``I feel a bad thing'' , then they disown it by making someone else feel that ``bad thing''. Then the ``bad thing'' is outside of them. Its a strange, sometimes sadistic, but very specific kind of projection, and also a form of communication.
The early psychotherapists who studied this extensively looked at it as a cry for help, essentially. Schizoids would make their therapists feel rejection, dismissal, abandonment...they called this `transference'. And the therapist would use this as a therapeutic mirror for their patient...called `counter transference' ..this involved going onto to discuss how the patient was experiencing those `transferred' feelings, and help them.
Maybe googling transference/counter transference' could help, if this seems to be happening to you? It might give a clearer picture?
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Post by kittygirl on Mar 10, 2020 12:41:25 GMT
Caroline-what do you mean by “vengeful”? Do you mean fault finding? Do you mean malicious behavior? Could you be interpreting behavior as vengeful because you’re seeing it through a certain lens?
Sometimes I would take my FA friends behavior so personally because it seemed so directed at me. But it wasn’t. Perhaps that’s what’s going on?
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Post by ocarina on Mar 10, 2020 18:38:56 GMT
My ex partner disappeared when I asked for more time together etc infact whenever any kind of issue surfaced - this didn't show on the surface but instead he (by his own admission) made up stories in his head for ignoring me, disappearing, refusing to communicate - he basically told himself that I had asked for this and that this was what I deserved. He said that underneath he knew this wasn't the case but he felt he needed some kind of justification.
In hindsight that was really quite alarming behaviour - no idea if it's an FA thing. I am avoidant and certainly haven't ever sought vengeance in any way.
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Post by dhali on Mar 10, 2020 18:46:39 GMT
No vengeance here.
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