[50sDad]

My dear wife would occasionally hear in her head the voice of a "southern waitress". It was never more than fragments of words and was triggered non-specifically, usually when we were driving somewhere together. (Sort of like Charlie Brown's teacher..."Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...honey!") She came from a home where the father drank in her youth (although he was 31 years dry when she first noticed this odd phenomenon), her mother was a resentful codependent, her brother an intellectual that got out early, and her sister a hypocondriact.

We got some counseling, and over three years or so as we worked out issues on both sides, the voice stopped. I asked the doctor what the heck it meant, and he just shrugged. You know, raised on TV movies, you expect some amazing insight, some brilliant fact that will make it all make sense, and it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, it is just like RF interference from a computer...you deal with be real causes of the problem, and the symptoms go away.

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“Sometimes, it is just like RF interference from a computer...you deal with be real causes of the problem, and the symptoms go away.”

Thank you for your honesty.

The ROOT cause must be addressed no matter how painful.

May God bless you for being so forthright.