DarwinCatholic responds to my post on complaining about your children. Maybe you can complain your way into problems:
As the drama prof pounded into my head when I took acting back in college, the best way to get yourself to feel an emotion is to take on the external characteristics of that feeling…
Watching the people at work who constantly complain about their spouses, or some of the couple we know who complain about their kids, I can’t help wondering if complaining about something in order to have something in common to commiserate about can often as not create resentment where it didn’t before exist.
It’s plausible.