Absence makes the heart grow fonder!?

[Guest guest]

Last night I slept at my cousins house. She fell asleep before me and started

to snore quite loudly; but it didn't bother me, and I fell asleep. But today

I've been remembering how when we were little, I used to sleep at her house and

her snoring would drive me to tears. It's funny that it doesn't bother me now

and I think the reason for this is that I haven't heard snoring like that for

probably twenty years, and over that time I have forgotten that I hated it - so

I don't hate it anymore?!

Don't get me wrong, I have problems with sniffers / nail biters / chewers etc on

a daily basis. But I haven't heard this particular trigger for years and it

appears not to be a trigger anymore. HURRAY!

Maybe if we weren't exposed to our triggers for long periods of time, we would

relax about them and learn to get used to them? Maybe with 4S we learnt our

negative reactions as children because we didn't have brilliant coping

mechanisms at that time, but if we had the chance to wipe the slate clean and

then were exposed to the triggers years later, we'd be able to cope with them a

little better?

Maybe?