Читать книгу Your Journey to Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way - Kenny Weiss - Страница 8

No matter what kind of trauma we experienced as a child, we replay that loop through our choices of friends, hobbies, careers, and relationships. We are attempting to take control of the trauma by victimizing ourselves because that gives us our power back. That’s what is happening when someone going through a divorce sleeps around and gets drunk every weekend. They feel rejected, inadequate, and/or powerless so as they head out once again they scream, “I’ll show them!” They are taking their negative feelings out on themselves. Even though they are unaware, their theory becomes, “I can’t get my spouse to love me, so I’ll show them. I won’t love myself either, but at least I am in control of doing it to myself. I got my power back!”