Standing separate instead of connecting is not the answer. It’s never the answer. But when things go wrong, the first thing I do is separate in shame. I go silent. No longer responding to texts or phone calls. It feels good to take that time out, but eventually I need to find someone stable and neutral to talk to about how I’m feeling.
Royal Family Dynamics: Analyzing the situation using cards from both decks of DramaGuru Revelation and DramaGuru Relationships illuminates a dark and complex he-said-she-said world of entrapment.
Floating in the River of Shame gets comfortable. People get used to explaining why they are there. After a while, they stop looking for an exit to jump through.
Maybe you made a mistake. But, as long as you’re trapped in this place, you block new doors from opening. Guardian Harut keeps track of how many times you refuse to take the exit marked “Grace This Way”.
We Don’t Like You! For Lisa Guerrero, the audience existed away from the football stadium, following her via radio as she drove in her car. Once their voices got inside her head, it was hard to focus on anything else.
The “Relationships” deck of cards goes deeper into sorting things out with people who really get under your skin. Don’t get overwhelmed by the number of cards. Just pick out a few and see how they apply to the people and conversations in your life.
Jared’s behavior perfectly illustrates the Creepy Wally Attack. When someone is all over you like a cheap suit, taking up too much space, invading your privacy and putting his needs before yours, Creepy Wally is in play.
During Covid, I miss the friendly connection with people helping me solve problems with paperwork and other issues. Now, I’m sent to their website.
In the end, it’s a familiar story with international espionage and MI6 handlers thrown in for dramatic effect. Most cheaters don’t have such interesting story lines. But the trap is the same and it works perfectly every time.
If everyone’s doing it, then it must be okay, right? Perfectly safe. “90% of nonconsensual pornography victims are women.” Or maybe not. A DramaGuru Analysis of the intimate photo trap.
Evangelist Joyce Meyer says that her father raped her more than 200 times when she was a teenager. In the spirit of using bad experiences to help people sort out what happened to them, I’ve used Joyce’s story to illustrate how people get stuck in traps using what I call a “DramaGuru Analysis”.