I don't. Which isn't to say that things that make other people feel sad don't matter to me.
[The answer doesn't sound defensive, exactly, but it does sound rote, and a little weary: like something she's explained to people many times before, and often to skeptical effect.]
Sometimes calmness and stillness. Sometimes eustress and exhilaration. Sometimes emptiness. Sometimes-- this is gonna sound weird, but hunger. Literal hunger, like my stomach is empty and so I need to go fill it with food.
[She says it slowly, aware that she should probably tread carefully with someone from his time period - even, or maybe especially, with someone in the psychology field.]
No offense taken. I understand the hesitation. Norton gave me the same treatment.
It's nothing to be fixed. I've never believed that. I only asked because I'm trying to get a sense of your feelings on her. They're important. Not wrong.
Okay. Then, yeah, I had romantic... something for her. But that's not what I meant by hungry; I got hungry when I was a kid and found out my dad died, too.
[Pangs of distress interpreted as pangs of hunger. Grief interpreted as a different biological impulse.]
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Date: 2023-06-12 08:11 pm (UTC)Re: audio
Date: 2023-06-12 08:14 pm (UTC)When you get angry, where do you feel it?
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Date: 2023-06-12 08:32 pm (UTC)My stomach; my head. I know a pulsing forehead vein is kinda stereotypical, but--
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Date: 2023-06-12 08:45 pm (UTC)audio
Date: 2023-06-12 08:58 pm (UTC)[The answer doesn't sound defensive, exactly, but it does sound rote, and a little weary: like something she's explained to people many times before, and often to skeptical effect.]
It just feels like nothing. Like emptiness.
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Date: 2023-06-12 09:01 pm (UTC)When you think about your friend, what do you feel? Where do you feel it?
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Date: 2023-06-12 09:09 pm (UTC)Re: audio
Date: 2023-06-12 09:19 pm (UTC)So if not anger, then what?
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Date: 2023-06-12 09:34 pm (UTC)Re: audio
Date: 2023-06-12 10:20 pm (UTC)[He laughs softly.]
Sounds a little like anxiety. Sounds a little like want. It doesn't sound weird.
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Date: 2023-06-12 10:33 pm (UTC)[She says it slowly, aware that she should probably tread carefully with someone from his time period - even, or maybe especially, with someone in the psychology field.]
Sure, both those things.
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Date: 2023-06-12 10:34 pm (UTC)[He's a little worried.
Maybe she doesn't see it.
Maybe she doesn't want to see it?]
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Date: 2023-06-12 10:45 pm (UTC)Re: audio
Date: 2023-06-12 10:47 pm (UTC)Do you think...you may have had romantic feelings for her?
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Date: 2023-06-12 10:49 pm (UTC)Re: audio
Date: 2023-06-12 10:55 pm (UTC)It's nothing to be fixed. I've never believed that. I only asked because I'm trying to get a sense of your feelings on her. They're important. Not wrong.
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Date: 2023-06-12 11:00 pm (UTC)[Pangs of distress interpreted as pangs of hunger. Grief interpreted as a different biological impulse.]
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Date: 2023-06-13 01:27 am (UTC)It's hard to figure out what our feelings are when our bodies take priority.
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Date: 2023-06-13 01:39 am (UTC)Re: audio
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Date: 2023-06-13 01:53 am (UTC)Empty is sad, I guess. Or defeated.
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