A post I have just linked too written after my sister died.. not getting the responses we desire when grieving or depressed can be tough but from the other side not all humans know how to relate.
I don’t want to believe in a negative world where you can’t trust anyone. And I don’t. But lately It has occurred to me that my happiness decreases in relation to my expectations, especially unrealistic expectations. Maybe its a lesson of my Leo North Node in the first house and is being especially highlighted now, that the Sun is inching towards it in its yearly cycle. But I am more and more conscious of my need to be and act independent of expectations placed on others while still allowing myself to be authentic in my connection with my deepest gut feelings and needs.
As I look back on my life I see I have spent a considerable amount of time in frustration over not being acknowledged by certain family members and at not receiving the kind of adequate empathetic responses from friends which I was hungering for, having endured some…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 