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Quarter-Light -- ©Brenda Carter  I labor over the keyboard until I have a response I can live with.
Sandy, I'm sorry, but there's just no way I'm going to accept the role of bad girl. When two people disagree over such a hot-button issue, the resulting conflicts are going to be about both of them; that's common sense, Psychology 101. Ever since you told me about your ministry, you've found only anger in everything I've said about it and my lesbianism. For reasons I'm unsure of, you have twisted my words and ignored my efforts to lessen the gap between us. I wish I could say I know we can make things right between us again, but I can't. You seem so determined to find anger when it isn't there, so clueless about the anger I do feel. I doubt if you even realize that you just answered my request for time out with a demand to cease and desist. I suspect that for both of us, the past weeks have been one long struggle to absorb a barrage of hurts. I want nothing more than to work with you to break through the loneliness left behind by our battles. If you can find it in your heart to read something besides anger in this letter, please let me know. But if you can't, please stop communicating with me until you find another way to deal with your unresolved issues around homosexuality. I don't have it in me to go on like this, or to overlook all that has happened. Jill After I give Rin a hard copy to read, she asks, "Are you really ready to do this?"
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