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    About Me

    I am generally a happy person to know. I have discovered new things about myself over the last 4 years particularly about strong emotions like anger and jealousy.

    Interests

    I like walking, dancing, visiting art galleries, good conversation, travelling, watching movies - especially off-beat ones.

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  • Journal

    • Angry and OK!

      Mood May 17, 2008 9:08am

      After several weeks of not getting angry, last night i got angry. I had been drinkink (about 5 pints of beer total, over several hours) and so had my …

    • Are we getting closer or more distant?

      Mood May 17, 2008 7:44am

      30 april 11.59pm

       

      Busy with work, interviews and stuff so less time with rose. Have agreed to take kids for Saturdays over next two months …

    • Reflections from the Middle East (part 11)

      Mood May 17, 2008 7:09am

      27 April, 2008, 11am, at home

       

      Post note to journal.

       

      Small incident the other day about having coffee with ex wife. My girlfriend knew I …

    • Reflections from the Middle East (part 10)

      Mood May 17, 2008 7:04am

      25 April 8.15am, Schipol Airport, Netherlands

       

      Most of the journey over. Had some brief sleep on plane. Despite my expectation that gf may have …

    • Reflections from the Middle East (part 9)

      Mood May 17, 2008 6:37am

      24 thu april 08, 10.40am

       

      Want to consider some new things: the curse of envy; I think I have grown up a lot (that gives me butterflies!) …

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      From Asterisk April 28

      ~ random hug ~ You don't know me but I came across your journal by coincidence and was both moved and inspired by your words. Good luck to you, stay emotionally strong and please keep writing. ~Asterisk

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      From Rachel2 April 15

      Follow your gut instincts. Listen to them and you will be fine.

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      From mckissick April 3

      thank you for your advice and info it is appreciated.

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      From seefa March 25

      you are with all of us who are hurting...we will all survive x we arte made of better stuff than them x

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  • Goals

    Progress

    50 %

    Goal End Date is Jul 31, 08 21 days ago.
    How often I get angry (no/wk)
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  • Support Groups

    • Close Physical & Emotional Abuse

      I was in Italy recently with my girlfriend. On the last evening when we argued. We got to the point where I wanted to leave the hotel room and she tried to prevent me. She was rather drunk (we had both drunk quite a lot that evening) and started lashing out at me I got a cut lip and a big black eye. That was February 2008. At the time I vowed i would never let anyone who could do that to me be my girlfriend again. Now we are back together. It has happpened before. Am I deluding myself?

    • Close Breakups & Divorce

      I have been with my girlfriend for three and a half years. We met as my marriage was going through a difficult time ending in a legal separation about two years ago, though not divorce. My relationship with my gf has been passionate and volatile with some extreme episodes between us. We have had several mini breakups lasting a few days and one lasting two weeks. Can this pattern ever change?

    • Open Healthy Sex

      Interested to hear what others say on this subject.

    • Open Healthy Relationships

      Would like to learn more about maintaining healthy relationships. This has got to be a good thing? Am I in a healthy relationship with my girlfriend? How can I find out?

    • Open Infidelity

      June 2008 will be one year since my gf cheated on me while I was abroad on business for a few days. We are still together though I can't seem to get this incident out of my head. My girlfriend admits she has tendencies to infidelity but says that I have knocked it out of her now. Sometimes I think I've dealt with it but then it comes back in a fresh wave. Lately I have been thinking about it every day.

    • Open Anger Management

      Sometimes I am the calmest person around. I'm not easily phased. Over the last few years I have discovered a firey temper that can escalate very quickly and has at times been difficult to control. I am much more in control of my anger now than I was.

    • Open Codependency

      I think I easily become codependant. Learning to be more independent. Noticing how others can create conditions of codependency.

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