Dear Gaia:

I love your attitude, so very pleased that you don’t withdraw when you don’t like something about my input to you and instead you are asking for “a balancing point for both of our perspectives”- I am so pleased that I am almost thrilled (and I mean it!)

Here is the balancing point that I am therefore suggesting: I will continue to tell you what I believe to be true, ask you about what I don’t know, and you will do the same. Plus, when you bring something up that I believe is a distraction from what I wrote to you, I will tell you so, but if I have input about about what I believe to be a distraction, I will offer you that input.

Is that acceptable to you?

Regarding what I refer to as a distraction in your post before last: “the ivy analogy, the tangible thing to lean on isn’t necessarily emotional support but again, ‘what makes you you'”- well, I don’t have input on it because I don’t know what you mean by it. Would you like to clarify it?

anita