Dear Samyukta:

You are welcome. Well, she did suggest her taking pills was your fault, that it was because of you when she told you that “if I’d told her that I loved her at the time, she might not have felt so much like a waste of space”, and when she reported to you that it happened while your phone was turned off. (Later on she said different things, indicating taking some responsibility for her actions).

Thing is, people often make gestures of suicide, shows of it so to get attention and to make others feel guilty, delivering a message of this kind: “see what you made me do? See how you hurt me? See what a bad person you are?

The self serving part of such a manipulative gesture is something like this: “and now, you fix it– make right of your wrong doing!

anita