In an article published on April 22, 2001 in the Boston Globe, Michael Kranish writes,
Wow! How much pain inside the unheeded cut-off! Just like my friend, Georgette, who, the minute any emotionally painful subject comes up for her, she says, "I don't want to talk about it."
There, too, was a Disconnect for Prescott Bush from his father Samuel who maintained that young Prescott ought to be able to earn his keep after attending Yale.
How did Prescott deal with the push from his father to support himself? He then took a job rather than going into law as he said he had wanted. Was this painful? Was it disappointing?
Althoug this Disconnect may have not been as extensive for Prescott Bush as George Herbert Walker's was from his family of origin-there seems to be a tinge of pain in Prescott's words.
Could an underlying tinge of pain and disappointment regarding his father's refusal to support him, have played a part in the bond formed by George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush?
Is this need for POWER AND CONTROL in the Bush Family, together with their need for, "I'll stroke your back if you stroke my back" be part of the Bush Family unfinished business which might explain their current "APOSTASY"?
This quote from Andrea Maloney-Schara to explain Bowen Family Systems might provide an answer.
It does for me.
"Dad never took much enjoyment from his immediate family," said Herbie Walker's son, George Herbert "Bert" Walker III, ... "IF YOU GOT HIM CORNERED HE WOULD TALK MORE ABOUT THE BUSHES THAN HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY. .." {caps are mine}.
Wow! How much pain inside the unheeded cut-off! Just like my friend, Georgette, who, the minute any emotionally painful subject comes up for her, she says, "I don't want to talk about it."
There, too, was a Disconnect for Prescott Bush from his father Samuel who maintained that young Prescott ought to be able to earn his keep after attending Yale.
"My father wasn't able to support me," Prescott Bush told an oral historian. "He had a modest income, but he couldn't support his adult children, and I didn't want him to anyway. So that's why I abandoned the law." MICHAEL KRANISH-THE BOSTON GLOBE-POWERFUL ALLIANCE AIDS BUSHES' RISE..
Althoug this Disconnect may have not been as extensive for Prescott Bush as George Herbert Walker's was from his family of origin-there seems to be a tinge of pain in Prescott's words.
Could an underlying tinge of pain and disappointment regarding his father's refusal to support him, have played a part in the bond formed by George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush?
Is this need for POWER AND CONTROL in the Bush Family, together with their need for, "I'll stroke your back if you stroke my back" be part of the Bush Family unfinished business which might explain their current "APOSTASY"?
This quote from Andrea Maloney-Schara to explain Bowen Family Systems might provide an answer.
Leaders, who go to the emotional gym, enter into a discipline to thoughtfully consider the details of alliance building. It requires one to inhibit the need for love and approval and to use the rational mind to form healthy alliances..
It does for me.
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