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And here's today's question. I'm wondering if you can talk about the issue of place, the ability to settle down

somewhere, and how this could relate to a mother complex, and for context, she writes,

I've always felt the need to move and can find anything to be unhappy about in my surroundings.

Sometimes I wonder if it's related to how I was

mothered. My mother could be very distant at times and made me feel strange for wanting her,

or having opinions or feelings certain ways. She would often make fun of me and I believe there

could be a connection here in that I can't take myself seriously for creating my

own life. I desperately want to move back to my hometown, but I wonder if it is just an unconscious

longing to get back to my mother, a mother type that I never actually had. I like her self-analysis.

She's really done a great job self-reflecting on this.

Yeah, I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind

is what they talk about in AA as a geographic.

So they talk about, you know,

you can't do a geographic cure they talk about.

So we do sometimes have an impulse to move,

to change, and that that can be a way of externalizing or concretizing an inner dynamic. And so,

therefore, the taking action in the outer world is unlikely to change anything. Now, I want to say that I think

that it's a little more complicated than that, because sometimes moving is the right thing to do.

But just in general, that that language from A.A. is a caution against thinking that just

changing locations is going to change you. And I think she, we assume, a she, is already aware of that.

And one of the paradoxes of being human is that we can't just go inside ourselves and do all our work internally.

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