Why don't you?
Transactional Analysis has been generally determined to be nonsense. It attempts to break down all human interaction into a small set of archetypes, and I think it remains useful as a metaphor even if it lacks scientific predictive power.
I mention this because I've realized I've been playing the Why Don't You -- Yes But game a lot over the past number of years. A number of well-meaning people attempt to help me with my disordered life/work balance. I come up with a list of reasons why this is impossible. Nobody is really satisfied.
[I will not that Berne's work now reads as very dated. His description of marital and sexual transactions may possibly have been valid in the 1950s, but they don't particularly resonate today.]
I mention this because I've realized I've been playing the Why Don't You -- Yes But game a lot over the past number of years. A number of well-meaning people attempt to help me with my disordered life/work balance. I come up with a list of reasons why this is impossible. Nobody is really satisfied.
[I will not that Berne's work now reads as very dated. His description of marital and sexual transactions may possibly have been valid in the 1950s, but they don't particularly resonate today.]