A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Peanuts 5 cents psychoanalysis

From:          Elizabeth  
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Tuesday, November 10, 1998 9:31 AM
Subject:       Hello
 
I got here a little early this morning.  I was thinking about what I wrote about my parent's divorce, and hope you don't take it the wrong way.  I don't see or know of any parallels between you/Julie and my mother/father.  The main point I wanted to make is that they separated because when they were together they had really bad problems.  When they would get back together after the divorce, in just a short time, the severe things would erupt again, and then my Mother would have to ask him to "leave."  Then a fight would erupt, literally, because she had been the one to ask him over.  Some of it centered on my father drinking at times.  You haven't said anything about what difficulty you and Julie are having, but I have just assumed it does not center on drinking and becoming abusive or things like that.  I've been trying to recall how it was to live around you, but that was so many years ago.  I recall you were somewhat oriented to being with "guys" you knew, male friends, more so than I was oriented to going out "with the girls."  You've talked some about how you keep that up in some ways, by sports after work etc.  I thought you were really self reliant, which could be alienating if someone felt they wanted you to depend on them, or need them.  But then, a lot of people have said that about me.  Oh well. 
 
Nothing like a Peanuts 5 cents psychoanalysis.[1]I guess I keep thinking, eighteen years.  The question then is "Why Now."  I would think the patterns would be pretty well set, not that they can't change.  Well, to work.  I hope you are doing as well as can be expected, although I think I would probably be traumatized if I was "left."  Elizabeth

[1] Peanuts 5 cents psychoanalysis refers to the Peanuts comic strip character who provided psychiatric “help” to Charlie Brown.

Frank Lloyd Wright