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WCDT 2976-2980 (8 - 12 June 2015)

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St.Clair:

--- Quote from: Undrneath on 08 Jun 2015, 23:22 ---I really want to see Claire finding Pintsize in the freezer with him just in there chilling.

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"S'up?"

Neko_Ali:
I'm usually supportive of the idea of May helping Faye out.. but there is one thing that she lacks to make a decent care taker or sponsor, and that is a sense of compassion towards others. Sure May will be good at telling Faye when she is being stupid, and will stand up to her when she needs it. But she'll also do it in an argumentative and dismissive way. Which if Faye knows she did wrong will get her to do the whole evasion/back down routine. But at other times will be like trying to put out a fire by throwing gasoline on it. Sometimes Faye is going to need a person to listen and be sympathetic if she's going to make any progress.

She especially needs to talk to someone about the break up with Angus and get her to start thinking about the fact that just because she didn't want to move with him doesn't make her a bad girlfriend, or a bad person. Which is I think the core of why she has been drinking lately. She's been stewing in her own abandonment issues, societal expectations about romantic partners and her feeling that because she didn't want to relocate when Angus got his dream job that she is a horrible person and a failure. All that she's been doing since then, avoiding talking about it with her friends, trying to stay drunk so she doesn't have to think or feel about it. Until she addresses that core problem I don't think she's going to improve. Marten may be able to get her to open up about it.. Doctor Corrine is probably a better choice.

ReindeerFlotilla:
I don't know that a pro is a better choice, here.

Faye = Dose not want to talk. That she is going to talk could lead to a good place or backfire, spectacularly.

Marten is not pushing the issue, though. so that's good. His statements are objectively true. And he didn't lay on a guilt trip or a threat. There's a danger that "I'm not going to let you push me away," could escalate there, but here's the critical thing as to why I don't think this is job for a pro: Faye's choice not to escalate seems to be tied to the fact that Marten hit the spot. She probably has a lot of reasons to want to force an end to the evening, but she knows that she is pushing Marten away.

I'd argue the possibility that she was accepting that pushing him away was a consequence of her actions, but I don't think and unintended consequence would trigger tears, drunk-ish or not. Marten made her face up to the fact that part of her is trying to break up the team. That Marten isn't going to take that lying down probably creates a lot of emotional dissonance, given the fact that she doesn't like herself much right now, and has unresolved issues about how she has always treated Marten a little less well that he's treated her.

She needs pro help. No question. But this is a breakthrough moment, at least vis-a-vis her value to Marten or to herself.

Sometimes you have to seize the moment. It's not something I'd see as a solution, but it's an important first step that I don't think Faye is capable of taking with someone who isn't a friend. As much as Faye connects with the extended cast, the people she trusts implicitly are Marten and Dora, full stop. I really don't think Dora is an option, nor do I think she will easily reach the point where she's willing to admit that she's risking more than she wants to loose if the opportunity is passed up now.

Pro help is the best long term option, but I think there no chance of her seeking the best if she doesn't grab the lifeline Marten just threw her.

Thrudd:

--- Quote from: Schwungrad on 09 Jun 2015, 02:14 ---
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 08 Jun 2015, 21:47 ---[Note: MrNumbers does not and never will endorse "Punch To The Head" as an effective alternative to psychiatry. Unless it's, like, really good fruit punch.]

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But what about a boot to the head?

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Whats that? You should have quoted the original instead of the animated ripoff of The Frantics - Last Will and Temperment

Welu:
Faye's expression in today's strip are heart-breaking.

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