Dear Parshal:

You wrote that you  don’t like “the person (you) have become”. I hope you discover the person you were from the very beginning and all along, underneath the person you have become. I am sure that person is loving and lovable and very sane.

You wrote: “I contribute some of this dysfunction to my feelings of abandonment by everyone in my life right down to the two people you are supposed to trust fully.. my parents”-

As young children we automatically trust our parents, naturally. We are not capable of evaluating their trustworthiness, not are we capable of enduring the knowing that we are in the hands of untrustworthy people. We trust them because we have to.

It comes like such a big surprise, to be betrayed by one’s parents. Completely unexpected, isn’t it?

How did they betray your trust in them?

anita