The Ripple Effect by Gail Saltz

Author:Gail Saltz [Dr. Gail Saltz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781605298771
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2009-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

WHY SHE CHANGED THAT STORY

THE TRIGGER POINT

Sharon had several “moments of truth”: the affair with Mark, the Little League dad; the relationship with Keith, the ladies’ man orthopedist; even opening up to me about her sister’s sexual assault. I suspect the true trigger point came when she talked about Gene, the college lover. Here was a story that seemed to encapsulate everything that could be right and everything that had gone wrong in her sex life.

Is there an incident in your life that resonates in this particular way? It doesn’t have to be a whole relationship; it might be just a moment in bed that you can’t get out of your head. Something that perhaps seems the opposite of how you usually behave, in the same way that Sharon’s relationship with Gene seemed to stand in contrast to her usual dating patterns. When we feel we’re undeserving, we have an amazing ability to build our lives in such a way that we don’t get what we actually want. How we respond to the rare moment that we do get what we actually want—whether it’s a relationship like Sharon’s with Gene or just a moment of tenderness with a lover—can be the key to unlocking any guilty feelings we carry within ourselves.

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