Parallel Living
One thing that Matt’s anxiety does is it prohibits him from doing nothing. He often explains this to me as “when I just sit and do nothing my mind just spins.” Because of the spinning mind he hates just sitting to watch a movie or tv. The show or movie doesn’t hold is attention enough for him to solely focus on what he is watching. This is why he turns to video games so much. We are not just sit together and watch tv people. I am a sit for hours and watch tv person, but we never do this together. This doesn’t mean we never just spend a relaxing evening at home together watching tv. It just means we do it a little differently than most. While we watch tv, Matt has a little tv on the coffee table that he plays video games on. We do this on Mondays when we watch Wrestling. I have learned over the years to be okay with this. It’s not that he doesn’t want to hang out with me, it just keeps him from falling back into a black hole with a racing mind. Parallel living is something that work...
