Dear James:

You are welcome. You shared that you are 22. When you were 5 or 6, your mother betrayed your trust, just “that once” and “it was seemingly trivial. You figured, as a child, that the reason your mother betrayed you, didn’t support you when you needed her, was because you were “a bad person, not worthy of even my mother’s love and support”. As the bad person you believe or suspect you are, you criticize yourself a whole lot.

Will you tell me about that betrayal?

And in what ways, at 5 or 6 and onward, you “never let her do  it again”?

anita