Dear ironwoman32:

Your father, when you were in high school, vented to you his trouble with his daughter from his previous marriage and you helped him, trying to help him be positive, (hopeful for a better relationship with her, I suppose, it means). You tried to help your mother with her health.

You wrote earlier: “I can’t recall anybody ever being displeased with me. Aside, from small trivial things…”-

I am thinking you must have done a lot of helping other people to keep on top of no one being displeased with you. You only failed in trivial things. I think you have a strong demand of yourself, to help others, and when you fail, partly or fully, you feel very badly.

Your motivation to help others is admirable. Except for the part of it that is hurting yourself.

If you consider this last statement, and if you agree: what part of helping others is hurting you?

anita