Dear Timepassages2070:

You are very welcome. It makes sense that B is worried about your wife. You never mentioned your wife except in the context of how she affects your relationship with B. It is as if your wife is not part of your life.

About your mother, you wrote: “I could generally always count on to be there for me and to a certain extent I would say the expectations I have had of women in my life have been pretty high because of her”-

– you wrote that you could generally count on your mother to be there for you, suggesting that there were a few times perhaps that you weren’t able to count on her, (I am okay if you choose to not answer the following): can you give me a few memorable examples of those rare times when your mother was not there for you?

anita