Okay, you guys have started me wondering whether I have the Orphan
Child archetype. At first I did not think so because I am the oldest
of a good sized family, no orphan here. Now I am thinking that since
I realized very early that I did not fit in this family very well and
because I exhibit the behaviours you describe as those of the orphan
child, perhaps I should consider this archetype.

To this day, although I love my family in a tortured kind of way, I do
not fit in with them and have almost no contact with them. For
instance I just visited with my parents a few weeks ago for the first
time in ten years. Thank goodness it was a brief visit because there
are just way too many mine fields in our relationship. And I have not
seen my siblings since we all dispersed into our various adult lives,
decades ago.

This is inconvenient since I just finished working through the
"Walking Through the Columns" section of "Sacred Contracts." It
appears I may have yet more work to do there.

Any thoughts?

--- In mysslist@yahoogroups.com, "Virginia Carson"
<virginia_carson@...> wrote:
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> Hi Pat
> That is awesome, I have been there and have worked hard at overcoming my
> dark side and now I believe I am learning to enjoy my own company so
much
> that I do not mind being alone. I also have a clingy side that I
have let
> go of and now I am parenting myself at age 62.
> Ginny
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