Hi

[WeAreKaren]

The People, your threes are different than mine. I don't have "triplets". What I often have are three parts that rotate handling a particular role. For example, I have three host parts. I have three guardians of the Inner Circle (the safe place at the center of my mind where the kids reside and where others of us go from time to time). I have three "shadows" whose job includes helping me remember daily stuff and stay in my body, coordinating all the parts that mitigate the effects of my SPD, and serving as first-line protectors of the host. I have three managers. And when memories arrive, it's usually happens after three or multiples of three parts come together outside of the "memory wall" that holds all the memories that until recently were buried so deep I had no clue that I'd had other than a happy childhood.

nats and others, Yes I've read various things that indicate that three is a number of stability and yet also flexibility. I've also had various theories having to do with what might be at the root of a trauma anniversary that I haven't yet had memories of. And most recently I ran across the "triune brain" reference I cited earlier. In the end it probably doesn't matter. But as I like to say, inquiring minds want to know. ;-) It could very well be a different reason for each person, since our systems are all so different. But who knows. Systems of people across culture and language boundaries also have some common characteristics, because we are all human. Ah well. It's just sort of fun to speculate, I guess.