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*this email was sent to me by a friend, & i thought to pass it on, not sayin to answer every question HERE in this forum, b/c those are sum private questions, but to just think about em, & recollect*
these questions come from a book entitled "What Happened to Daddy's Little Girl: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women" by Jonetta Rose Barras...they're from a chapter entitled "Self Examination" and i thought they were good ones to ponder/meditate upon/ consider...
...L... ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ 1) At what age did you have your first sexual experience?
2) What was your chief motivation for entering that relationship, or those relationships?
3) Do you distinguish sex from love, or are they the same thing to you?
4) Did you ever consider having a child, although at the time you weren't married? If yes, how old were you and what motivated the desire?
5) If you have children, what is your relationship with them- are they used to fill the empty space in your life; so they serve as a weapon for keeping your partner in line, etc. If you do not have children, so you still have a strong desire to have them; what is your motivation?
6) How and why did you end your last relationship?
7) How strongly do you respond to criticism from a mate? Even when the criticism is valid, do you sometimes find yourself worried about whether the comments mean he is about to break off the relationship?
8) Do you prefer dating men who are married, have another girlfriend, or are intensely involed with their work?
9) Do you sometimes find yourself in a good relationship but still feel uncomfortable about it?
10) How often have you ended a relationship before the man whom you were dating, living with, or married to decided to end it?
11) When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Are you comfortable or uncomfortable with your body image?
12) How many times have you tried dieting or gaining weight over the last three years?
13) Have you ever suffered bulimia, anorexia, or any other eating disorder?
14) When you are hurt, angry, or lonely, do you frequently head for the refridgerator, for the stove, or for that bottle of wine?
15) How often do you head for work, either in your house or at your office, when things are going badly in a relationship?
16) Do you lash out at others for no apparent reason?
17) Have you within the past five years been the first to attack, verbally or physically, your male partner?
18) Do you sometimes become so angry with yourself that you deny yourself certain niceties?
19) Do you sometimes spend days in bed when you are not physically ill, find yourself tired when you have exerted very little if any physical energy, realize you can't get yourself motivated?
20) Have you ever thought that you would be better off dead, ever thought of commiting suicide, ever attempted suicide?
21) Do you sometimes bend over backward in a relationship, attempting to please the other person, even if it means sacrificing your own pleasure and happiness?
22) Do you invest more time in helping a man improve his life than you do in improving your own?
23) Are you frequently overly conscious of how people perceive you?
24) Do you feel that you never measure up to others?
25) Do you believe everything you do has to be perfect?
"u cant see ahead w/ ur head down" - qua'ran tauheed {my baybee sister}
i just want chu to know how i feel how i feel
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