Hi Anita,

Thank you, and thank you also for noting the positive news we received about the verdict today. Obviously there is still a lot of work to do to make our country safer, but things are looking up today 🙂

That is really valuable advice to hear about therapy. It has been helping me the past 6 months (since I ditched the wacky previous therapist and got a better one), but I definitely don’t have unlimited means and wonder how much more she could realistically do for me. Perhaps when I think I’m nearly ready to stop, I can talk to her about ways to maintain my healing?

The only other big reason why I would find it really hard to cut off my parents is because they do help a lot with my son when I am with them. They never come visit us themselves, but it’s almost worth the drive and the risk of increased anxiety for me to just have a few extra hands with my son every once in a while. He has a lot of energy, and otherwise we wouldn’t ever have any help (my in-laws being in England of course). Do you think it is possible for someone like me to eventually stop becoming so upset by their issues and continue to still be in their presence at times?

Thank you so much, Anita! And sorry that I digressed so much from my original post 🙂