Dear Cass:

If your father is jealous of the closeness between you and your mother, it means that he too wants closeness, with someone. Not your job to satisfy his need for closeness, of course. He had the opportunity, many opportunities to be close with you. Shame that he didn’t take advantage of those. I don’t know anything about the relationship between your parents, of course, other than it is not being a good one, not for a long time. I don’t know who rejected whom, who was aggressive to whom, and in what ways.

Do you know? I am asking because it may have relevance to your life now.

Back to social media, people’s comments- I wouldn’t take those seriously. People say things, lots of things. Again, people look happy on Facebook. They may be miserable but their photos are forever happy.

anita