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To: NorthMountain; All
This is the best book we know on the topic by a couple of Christian PhD therapists:

https://www.amazon.com/Attachments-Why-You-Love-Feel/dp/0785297375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524568476&sr=1-1&keywords=ATTACHMENTS%3A+WHY+YOU+LOVE+...

72 posted on 04/24/2018 4:14:58 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning
This is NOT always a 'merely' 'academic' issue. Qx has a Christian brother in one of his men's Bible study groups. They used to meet weekly for lunch for 2 years. "Fred" has fierce perfectionistic road rage that tends to rear up to frightful levels in a flash. And, has, on occasion commented that sometimes he felt like taking his concealed carry out and "blowing the obviously clueless idiot driver away."

Thankfully, hopefully, Fred is not too likely to actually do that. And, God seems to be answering prayer that Fred work more earnestly at laying aside such rage. It does show up across the board in the rest of his life, too--though most pointedly and persistently when driving.

But it's been and remains a huge struggle--very tied to Fred's incredible levels of pride.

And this is a truly very bright--genius level, earnest, authentic Christian engineer. He's on his 3rd marriage, IIRC. His flawed wife used to drive him almost daily to extreme distractions as a minimum, with her imperfections.

Finally, God has increasingly succeeded at mellowing things out on both sides of those sorts of problems.

Yet the bulk of his enormous, vain pride and perfectionism remain--along with his road rage. At least now, he's more humble about realizing it and seeking prayer for it. He may even be starting to change. He doesn't want another stroke.

73 posted on 04/24/2018 4:24:43 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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