"I am asking the apartment to ask Cora to leave. I don't have to say anymore. My therapist said I didn't have to give my reasons and that I could just ask the apartment to ask her to leave. You could either vote yes or no based on my request."
This is what Annie, my once-upon-a-time ally and friend in the group asked of our roommates, in the apartment where I had lived for three years. I had heard this uncompromising reasoning many times in my five years in the group. To me, it was bullying.
In the end, it was majority rule and I had a week to leave. A group apartment was forming on the 12th floor of our building and that was where I wound up. This new apartment coming together in the middle of the winter didn't exactly include the cream of the Sullivanian crop,
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A week after I moved upstairs, Stan, my fourth and final therapist - a former history teacher - in another bizarre twist, asked me if I wanted to move back because if I did, 'I should call the apartment and ask for a house meeting and say that I should be allowed to move back because Annie had bullied my roommates." This is exactly what I had said to him weeks before. To this day, I don't know what held me to the chair because at the time every impulse I had was urging me to grab Stan by his bony shoulders and shake him until he fell apart.
Listen to this episode and hear how Stan's incompetence and Annie's bullying helped me recover the resilience I thought was lost.
The complete documentary Through a BlueWindow can be seen on my youtube channel shellfein1. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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