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WCDT: 2686-2690 (21-25 April 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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techkid:
Also possible.

Mlle Germain:
Wow, I wish Faye would pull herself together. There's plenty of time to worry about a long distance relationship when you actually know it's going to happen.
Also, two weeks until the next stage of the application process does not strike me very long - but of course it can feel very long if you're anxious about it like Faye. It's a little ironic that Angus seems to be way more relaxed than Faye although it's his professional future that's on the line, not hers.

(Do you think Jeph would drag this out so much if he didn't plan on Angus getting the job? I'm not sure. Could be either.)

Neko_Ali:
Yeeeaaaah... Faye 'just pulling herself together' is just not going to happen and is honestly kind of insensitive to say. Someone  with severe anxiety disorder and worries over abandonment issues thanks to her father's suicide isn't going to just get over it. I mean she's been trying to deal with this most of her life and even been seeing a therapist about it. She's really making amazing progress simply do the fact that she's let herself get into this situation by getting close to Angus, and right now to her it probably feels like everything she ever feared about getting close to someone again is happening, and she is helpless to stop it. That she's actually trying to deal with the situation instead of running away or drinking herself into a stupor is a huge thing.

Mlle Germain:
I'm not telling her to, I said I wish she would - that does not imply that she is able to. Maybe the phrase "pulling herself together" is too negative? English isn't my first language so I might occasionally not realise that something has different connotations from what I think it has.

And she did try to drink herself into a stupor before, but luckily it does not seem to have progressed to the stupor stage - good for her.

I guess I just thought that by this time she'd come further along fighting her anxieties so that it wouldn't bother her so much - at least before Angus moving away actually happens. I guess she fooled me there with her usual tough and confident behaviour. (I think it's quite a long time in the comic since that facade came down the last time.)
Angus seems to be pretty concerned about her reaction as well... I hope he can deal with it.

Edit: I also did not write 'just' (as in "Just pull yourself together!") anywhere - I can immediately hear that that implies it is easy, which I do not think it is for her. I honestly only expressed the wish that Faye manages to get her anxiety under control so that she doesn't harm her relationship, which I fear she's doing here - I guess I had better written it with those words in the first place, right? So, I am sorry if that came out wrong, I should have worded it differently.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 21 Apr 2014, 02:26 ---There's plenty of time to worry about a long distance relationship when you actually know it's going to happen.

--- End quote ---

Yes, but it takes a lot of self-training and life wisdom to refrain from worrying about things that might happen. It's a difficult skill even for people who've had an easier emotional life than Faye.

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