Matthew Perry Told the Truth About Everything
Toward the end of Matthew Perry’s autobiography, he wrote about an encounter in which his mother told him she was proud of him.
“I’d wanted her to say that my whole life”, he wrote. “When I pointed this out she said, ‘What about a little forgiveness?’”
This is the sound of shame perpetuating itself in a family: two people longing for acknowledgment and absolution and answering a direct request for love in that moment with a different request of their own.
Shame is a dominant theme in Mr. Perry’s memoir and, it would seem, in his life. Mr. Perry, to his credit, was determined to break the cycle.… Seguir leyendo »