Posted by Geoff P on 28/4/2009, 11:52 am, in reply to "My updates (London/Europe!)"

Hi Adam, Good to hear you had so many positive experiences on your trip and that you have been getting in a lot of good practice in different situations. Mark is right, mate. Tell her!! Anything you can do to help with your anxiety levels has to be good. Just having to hide something from somebody is bound to bring stress to the relationship and to your thought processes. This whole problem is anxiety bassed, so to make progress, you have to identify what stresses you, then find ways of combatting that stress. If you find it really hard to start talking to your wife, how about printing off some of the info from the main UKPT site, and getting her to read it. That way, she has time to take things in and you can just be there and let her ask you about it. That could take a lot of the emotion and embarrassment out of the situation and be a lot easier. Hope I don't sound like I've got all the answers here. You can see from my last post that I certainly don't. Just a few ideas, mate. Keep in touch. Geoff.

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