PSYCHIATRIST
Your wife maintains that you don\u2019t show her enough affection.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
I show my wife a lot<\/i> of aggression.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
\u201cAffection.\u201d<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Yes.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
You said \u201caggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
PATIENT
No, I said affection.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
It\u2019s very interesting to me that you confused those two words.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Whatever I said, I meant<\/i> \u201caggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
Aggression?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
No, aggression.<\/i> You\u2019re browbeating me.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
Not at all. I think your wife feels unappreciated because of the lack of physical displays of affection.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
I think my wife is turned off by it. I think she hates public displays of aggression.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
\u201cAffection.\u201d<\/p>\n
PATIENT
When we\u2019re out, I try to give her a slug, or even just a little kill on the cheek, and she\u2019s up in arms. It embarrasses her.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
Have you attempted this in private?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
This isn\u2019t private stuff! It\u2019s not like I\u2019m trying to French<\/i> kill her, or unbutton her shoot or anything.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
French kill her?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Kiss. It\u2019s not a French kiss,<\/i> just a little punch on the cheek.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
But is she more responsive in private?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
I try to get aggressionate in private. But usually she\u2019d rather talk.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
She wants a conversation?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Yes, but I\u2019m not in the mood for conflagration. She keeps drowning on and on, and talking gets in the way, when I just want to strangle up with her, or do some killing.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
\u201cKissing\u201d?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
And this isn\u2019t deadroom talk, it\u2019s more like nagging. Like a pop quiz about our suffocationship.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
You just referred to your bedroom as a \u201cdead-room.\u201d<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Whatever tomb it is, that\u2019s not the point. I can\u2019t get into physical aggression if she keeps going on about \u201cexpressing our true flayings for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
\u201cFeelings\u201d?<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Yes! Isn\u2019t that ridiculous? She keeps talking about \u201crevealing our true ammunitions\u201d and \u201cexpressing our flayings.\u201d \u201cFinding true stabbiness in our knife together.\u201d<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
I think she just wants to hear that you\u2019re committed to maintaining the relationship.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
I\u2019m definitely<\/i> committed to maiming the relationship. That\u2019s not even a question. We\u2019re very attacked to each other.<\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
She needs to hear that. It seems to me.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
I shove my wife. I shove her very much. And I don\u2019t want anything to gun between us. But sometimes, I swear, I just want to grab her by the hair and run her through a meat grinder.<\/p>\n
(pause)<\/i><\/p>\n
PSYCHIATRIST
That was a very violent image.<\/p>\n
PATIENT
Yes, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PSYCHIATRISTYour wife maintains that you don\u2019t show her enough affection. PATIENTI show my wife a lot of aggression. PSYCHIATRIST\u201cAffection.\u201d PATIENTYes. PSYCHIATRISTYou said \u201caggression.\u201d PATIENTNo, I said affection. PSYCHIATRISTIt\u2019s very interesting to me that you confused those two words. PATIENTWhatever I said, I meant \u201caggression.\u201d PSYCHIATRISTAggression? PATIENTNo, aggression. You\u2019re browbeating me. PSYCHIATRISTNot at all. I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketches","tag-dave-stinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}