The last compliment you received

[Angrboda]

When in group, and talking about how my tendency to respond to conflict with aggression and hostility, and how that kaboshed my career as a moderator here, another member told me he didn't see me as that one dimensional, despite my casting myself in that mold (the therapist termed it "constricted" to responding aggressively). He said he found me funny, and warm, and stuff. I confess, I wasn't listening too well to the specifics, as I was well on my way to combating his assertions about me, and doing my best to interrupt with assertions of "how things really are."

I know I can be and am those things. I just wasn't them when I needed to be. Oh well, another year-end catastrophe. I'm guessing this is going to be a regular pattern for a few years at least. I'd best strap myself in now.