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View submission: Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?
I'm struggling a bit with realising that being a good person means often being comfortable with non-reciprocity. My friend and partner are vulnerable (both trans) and I feel like I've issues which must be addressed on outer rims of the 'circle of grief'. While my friend is (emphatically!) vocal about their oppression and bid for support, my partner (LDR German) isn't really opening up about it, is withdrawing, and gets frustrated when I don't get it (re: German election this weekend). So on the one hand I feel I'm having to take a lot on the chin re: getting schooled as their class and social consciousness develops with my friend; and on the other I don't know how to help with my partner. It's ironic that all 3 of us are heavily politicised and immersed in the news cycle, when I wonder if a better antidote for them would be if I were a little out of it and could provide the funnies and light hearted stuff. But damn it's hard to hide my own fear sometimes, given my own vulnerabilities.
There's nothing here!