Dear Christina:

You wrote that you and your father were very close, then entered into your life and your home a step mother and step sisters. For long six years (six years is a long, long time for a child), you didn’t have all of your father’s attention anymore, “which didn’t really bother me”, you wrote.

Can you tell me what you mean by it not bothering you, do you remember what thoughts went through your young brain at the time when you noticed that his attention that was once yours, was then elsewhere?

And what was your relationship with your step mother, did you try to get her attention, to get her to love you?

anita