Considering Truth
Truth is often seen as an unchanging, indisputable, and stable within the environment. Truth is much more complicated than that, let’s take a look.
Truth is not as simple as we would like. When people have different experiences, sometimes we have different focuses when incidents happen. When there’s high conflict, including abusive incidents, we as individuals focus on different parts of the incident, and can be impacted by memory loss from toxic and/or chronic stress. If you’ve ever reflected on an experience that you and the other person were both present for and it turned out you two remember it differently?
Truth is also complicated by conflicting truths.
You love your partner AND your partner harms you through abusive tactics;
Your parents did their best to raise you AND their parenting was not enough to keep you safe;
Your best friend is your ride or die AND they disrespect your boundaries which hurts;
When you consider that some truths are your own, and no one can tell you how to experience the world around you, you can ease the discomfort of holding multiple truths. One truth does not negate the other, and it doesn’t make the other truth a lie. Sit the with emotions of your truths, and what they bring up in you.
