Posted by Pete L on 16/4/2009, 12:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Starting a new thread"

Sorry Geoff, I got so involved with answering your question, I forgot to ask about your not discussing AP much with your wife. Do you not talk about it for any particular reason? I found it extremely difficult myself to begin with as I was very embarrassed. In addition, at that time, I thought that I was alone with this, which seems along time ago now since i discovered this site, so I felt quite humiliated to open up. When you feel alone with something, and the nature of this condition certainly makes you feel alone, it's very hard to enter in to a discussion about it without feeling like ....... i'm struggling for the right words here...... a failure, slightly worthless, freakish, abnormal, alone..... I guess the right word depends on how you feel as an individual, perhaps. I tell you what though, i don't feel like this half as much now!! I don't associate any of the above negaitve words with myself anymore. I thank you and everyone else on this site for this change in attitude. You want to talk about it Geoff, i'm listening mate. Pete

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