“One summer day in 1991 I was starting a wallpaper project in my home and had heard that a neighbor, Audrey, was an expert with wallpaper. I liked Audrey. She was my age, with a successful marriage and six children to take care of. Audrey was tall and thin with dark, shoulder-length hair and an olive complexion. She was a very attractive, confident woman with a calm and open demeanor.
“I decided to ask her if she could help me, thinking that she might just offer some advice. I was surprised when she came to my home and helped me complete the entire project. Later, Audrey wanted to help her sister with a wallpaper project in a town a hundred miles away and I decided to return the favor and volunteered to help her.
“The 100-mile drive to her sister's home offered an opportunity to talk. Because we were driving at night, I felt safer opening up to her when I knew she couldn't see my face. In fact, over the subsequent years, as I shared my life with various people it would often be with a sweatshirt or jacket hood covering my face. I felt safer disclosing when I knew my face wasn't exposed.” (My Tears Fall Inside, page 67)
Opening up to anyone is a very vulnerable experience. However, by letting someone into your world, a closeness is developed that can not happen in any other way. It is worth the risk, even though people aren’t perfect and sometimes disappoint you.
“I decided to ask her if she could help me, thinking that she might just offer some advice. I was surprised when she came to my home and helped me complete the entire project. Later, Audrey wanted to help her sister with a wallpaper project in a town a hundred miles away and I decided to return the favor and volunteered to help her.
“The 100-mile drive to her sister's home offered an opportunity to talk. Because we were driving at night, I felt safer opening up to her when I knew she couldn't see my face. In fact, over the subsequent years, as I shared my life with various people it would often be with a sweatshirt or jacket hood covering my face. I felt safer disclosing when I knew my face wasn't exposed.” (My Tears Fall Inside, page 67)
Opening up to anyone is a very vulnerable experience. However, by letting someone into your world, a closeness is developed that can not happen in any other way. It is worth the risk, even though people aren’t perfect and sometimes disappoint you.
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