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Compulsion
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We do not allow others to control us, but we do understand and feel their pain when we realize that their controlling manner is a compulsion. Most controlling people cannot help themselves; they are not in control of the controlling. They are not insulting us by trying to control us; rather, they automatically take charge and dominate people and situations. They do this because of a chilling fear that they cannot handle letting the chips fall where they may. It takes a spiritual program to be li
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― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
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The Book Fiend
by Stewart Stafford
Reread the book's last line—
Feel the gasping achievement,
Clawing upwards with the bends,
Wheezing in cadaver-chilled air.
Graven vista in my periphery,
Exorcised from another's skull,
Cast out into the profane present
The pilgrim claim reinfects the wound.
The crisp crack of pages turned—
The starveling gnaws on marrow;
Braving the guarded black gate,
Surreptitiously-admitted, willing erasure.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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