How to cope with Rejection Sensitivity (Sketches + Notes)

Ahhhhhhhh thank you!! I've been thinking about making a tier for 1-time commissions - maybe at the end of the year? When some things are more settled :)

ADHD Alien

I'm planning to do something like this in a paneled comic, as it requires much more visual work and explaining. There are so many nuances to situations like this that I want to show both partners and how the misunderstandings / repetitions of situations come to be!

ADHD Alien

now, fit that in threepanes with at least 4 tricks and I'll throw in a coffee maker as well as my lifetime sub, your stuff is excellent, do you do commissions?

I think it would be maybe interesting to characterise the partners natural responses that 'we've been here before', while explaining that it is their automatic responses that our part of the trigger to our failure to respond emotionally, physically or verbally to their response, which we cherish as it comes from a place of love, but we are 'too sensitive' to be thinking in the moment when passions are running high. Anything to help diffuse the spiral and arm my partner to understand more about the process will help, I've been married for 14 years and it's not a clear path, we try, I have to accept that she will never quite be in my head, and appeals to fairness and kindness is the best approach, we are sensitive but strong, don't doubt that your ability to suffer these 'intrusions' or 'lack of understanding' from someone you care for, I use aversion therapy all the time, I make myself hug my wife or child, especially on good days, then, if I need to fake it I do, because it does not diminish me but fuel me, my wife and daughter are lovely people with good intentions, I do not expect them to fully understand how complicated life is for me, I don't ask for complete understanding, just acceptance, tolerance and a forward looking approach so I don't carry guilt for things that did not happen which while at first might be perceived as self interest but was acutally something else, something in the moment I knew was futile to raise right there and then as I would not have the emotional or physical space to process my reactions and that of those around me.