maideNew Contributor
perception of responses of others
I am new to this forum and will plunge straight into what is bothering me.
I think I am getting over it but yesterday my neighbour was really nasty and unpleasant to me in a quite gratuitous way. I was terribly upset and it fed into a feeling that I'm not like by others generally. It has brought this feeling to the fore with reminders of other negative experiences of, if not open dislike but certainly of people not wanting to spend time with me. I met a friend in a park today and afterwards i had the feeling i had irritated her with some of my remarks so when I got home I phoned her to apologise if I had annoyed her. She said not at all and I will take her at her word. I felt better for airing my feeling rather than getting upset. Then I phoned someone who works for an organisation that occasinally has public events for its supporters(remember those days when we could gather!!) and apologised to her b/c I'd been quite rude abot the food they presented (I'm vegan) explaining I had been in a bad way on that day as my dog had died a few days prior to the event and I was out of control. She also said not at all and suggested we get together in the near future