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The personal issue I would like to discuss is regarding housework. This is an issue that affects both myself and my partner in that we live together and share an apartment space. There are a number of household tasks that need to be completed on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. There is a multitude of sensory date that I perceive when our apartment is a mess. I can visually witness perhaps piles of laundry or dirty dishes or trash that needs to be taken out. I can also occasionally smell that trash if it’s been left a little to long. Beyond just what is apparently dirty, I can also see the neverending clutter that seems to fill many corners of our tiny apartment. Having an unclean house brings about a number of physical sensations for me …show more content…
The first being embarrassment. I feel embarrassed that our apartment is rarely suitable for company and i feel embarrassed that day in and day out I do little to remedy the situation. In combination with embarrassment, I also feel guilty that I allow our apartment to become so messy in the first place or that when I do get our apartment clean it quickly reverts back to what it used to be with little change in mine or my partners behavior. Occasionally I can also feel annoyed in situations like I mentioned above, when my partner is home all day and does nothing to clean up our house. It can be frustrating for me when I feel like if I don’t clean up no one will. It can feel overwhelming at times when I have work, school, homework, and a long list of chores to complete at …show more content…
While I don’t think I need much work on my listening abilities I know that I have a lot to work on when it comes to my ability to explain my feelings regarding an issue to my partner or to a friend without coming off as hostile or unfeeling. I think that using the awareness wheel can help me to become more emotionally intimate as I have to walk through what I normally do regarding thinking things over in my head - why I’m feeling a certain way, ect. However, when using the awareness wheel it forces me to also take action at the end of all that thought. That action could be in making choices and decisions to better myself to fix the problem or to discuss my issue with my significant other so the two of us can work through the problem

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