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Now, that disappointment with your relationship is even more pertinent than your individual and joint feelings about Artistic, and your life in that regard. That aspect of your life would simply be another challenge for the two of you to face together if you admitted this deeper disappointment and did something about it.

Reasons have been given to you in the past, but you can break the habit now by expressing your emotions to each other, and so indeed you must. One of the deep disappointments that neither of you have faced is the difference between what your personal relationship is and what it could and should be.

Your relationship is a good one, compared to most an excellent one, but you know your inner potentials, and the potentials of that relationship, and how much you have to some degree failed it. Obviously you have not entirely failed by any means, and you have always maintained an underground basis of loyalty and love; but you are each deeply disappointed with that relationship compared to what you know it can be.

Ruburt is, again, far better able to help you in that regard than either of you realize. The basic disappointment with each other colors your perspective when you consider the Artistic Card aspect.

Hot in afternoon, not inspired—disappointed; do sketch.

[...] Each of you, however, shy away because you are afraid of being disappointed.

[...] There was a feeling of disappointment connected and I’d say that it represents some feelings about my abilities—I thought they were sterling—really terrific—and wore myself out caring for them, but I fear that they are only very good serviceable ones after all, their earlier promise not proving true.... [...]

[...] Sometimes Ruburt feels guilty at any improvement he feels on any given day because it seems too obvious that this is only a setup for a future disappointment. Better not mention it, and only disappoint himself.

[...] Ruburt is afraid of disappointing himself and you as well if they do not continue. [...]

For one thing, [the] Cinderella [tale] has a happy ending, of course, and is therefore highly unrealistic (with irony), according to many educators, since it does not properly prepare children for life’s necessary disappointments. [...]

[...] The disappointments you have faced indeed make such a tale seem to be a direct contradiction to life’s realities. [...]

[...] You are still both afraid—Ruburt primarily, of course—of really trying for fear you will be disappointed, and worried at the disruptions that might occur—again, Ruburt primarily. [...]

[...] This upset me, yet Jane didn’t feel bad about it, and I curbed my disappointment.

(Earlier she’d told me that she was both disappointed and impatient with her progress since we’d started this group of sessions on October 9. She’d wanted her decubiti healed in a week, she said, and to be sitting on the edge of the bed by now. [...]

[...] No organism automatically expects to find starvation or disappointment or detrimental conditions — yet even when such circumstances are encountered, they in no way affect the magnificent optimism that is at the heart of life.

“I am very disappointed, Robert, that I can’t get in to see Jane, just for a minute. [...]

[...] Beyond expressing disappointment at that fact, he did or said nothing else. [...]

[...] I wrote in the closing note for the session that I was disappointed because Seth hadn’t brought up those two points in the session itself.)

[...] They are often triggered, finally, by a traumatic life situation — the death of a spouse or parent, a major disappointment, or any experience that is particularly shocking and disturbing to the particular person involved.

[...] I mentioned this only so that he understands, and is not disappointed if one day he does exceptionally well, and the next day does not seem to do as well. [...]

[...] Disappointments, conflicts, and feelings of powerlessness can begin to make unfortunate inroads in the personalities of those who believe that life itself has little meaning. [...]

[...] Her—and I say her advisedly, since here Ruburt operated as a woman—her disappointment was instant but superficial.

[...] Ruburt’s disappointment then, was only superficial, because he knew that the decision had been made much earlier. [...]

[...] Jane had felt that I was disappointed by the publication of her novel, The Rebellers — and correctly so. [...]

[...] At the same time, rally your forces, so that you creatively try to change a mood of disappointment. [...]

[...] I was trying to avoid both disappointment and unnecessary confrontations. [...]

[...] I could not let you leave, you see, with heavy hearts and disappointed faces. [...]