Dear Ellie:

You are welcome. I do hope you find competent therapy. I have no experience with online therapy; I wonder how it can be helpful without the person-to-person contact.

You live in Northern Alaska (I live in WA state). You are an “extremely independent (single mom)” living in Northern Alaska. I wonder how it is to live so far north.

Regarding the guy you know for almost 20 years, and your feeling that he doesn’t have the same interest in you as you have in him, maybe he is extremely independent too, like you?

anita