Hi Jerry,
I was thinking about these dream analyses today and thought I would post an update.
I was looking back on my journal from around this time and realized what was going on. I was having major conflicts at the time between my head and my heart-- to use some cliched words--with my relationship with my husband. It seemed to be that my heart/gut wanted to speak up about something that didn't seem right, and my head/ego wanted to keep quiet and go with the flow. I would tell myself that nothing was going on and i had nothing to worry about, but still my gut did not agree. It wasn't until I talked to some of our mutual friends recently that I realized that I was suppressing these emotions at the expense of preserving my ego to maintain a facade of being "cool." And when I finally talked to my husband about the issues, it seemed to resolve that feeling that my head and heart were at odds, and it was a relief. But it was also really scary, because once I said these things it could have changed our relationship forever, for the worse. In the past, that risk would have been too much for me to take and I might have just ignored it and suffered silently. I was willing to take the risk though because my marriage was worth it to me, even if there was a possibility that I was accelerating the ending of it.

Somehow it just clicked that this was part of why I was having those dreams. I'm still working on these issues, I mean, they're not totally gone, but at least I have an idea of how to deal with them now.

You were right to question what was going on with my relationship w/ my husband and life overseas, because that definitely played a part. I guess at the time I didn't have the perspective to see what was going on. So sometimes these dreams take years to resolve.

Anyway, I'm really thankful that you have this site.

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