August 6, 2003

• I went to my Tuesday night women’s group last night after missing 2 weeks because of the heat. I’ve been going there for over a year now and I still can’t decide whether it’s making me feel better or worse. It’s a small group – usually about 6 at a time. There are the group dynamic issues – like that some people talk more than their share of the alloted time (which is 90 minutes) consistently, leaving others less time. Then there are other issues – like being aware that some of the young mothers are probably being abusive to their children from the way they describe interactions. One member is admittedly anorexic, which is difficult to watch. One of the members near my age recently reached out to me to get together socially, a time was set, and then after saying there might be a conflict with something else she had to do she neglected to get back to me. One of the reasons I stay is that I so often in my life operate by the principle “I’m out of here” when anything bothers me. I just go and don’t look back. I told myself this time I would stay no matter what and so far I have. But the jury is out…..

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