when we are uncomfortable we reach out for what distracts us
Aline provides care for her husband Harry who has A.L.S. As the illness robs Harry of the freedom of performing even simple tasks Aline steps in to provide the needed assistance. While she is careful to be cheerful around Harry all is not well within Aline and because she senses this she ceaselessly bustles around the house trying to set things right; in fact, she is never gone from Harry’s presence for more than a minute or two, as if she is afraid that being gone longer will result in his not being there when she returns. Her friend Patty observes, “I think that she thinks that if she increasingly busies herself in the physical aspects of helping him then she doesn’t have to deal with the emotions she feels as she slowly loses him.”
Aline’s solution to discomforting feelings is to keep busy. For others of us
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