Dear Samantha:

In your post before last you wrote: “In fact, this is embarrassing, but until the age of 11, when my dad was kicked out, I had to sleep in my mom’s room, otherwise I would have anxiety attacks about dying and wouldn’t be able to sleep all night.”

I didn’t notice it yesterday but I am noticing it today. Can you re-read this sentence above and let me know if you see the one word that you used that means you still, at this point in the present, do not understand the severity of your childhood between 5 and 11, the severity of the danger you lived with and the consequences to you for living in such danger?

anita