Dear Letticia:

Reads to me that you lost your purpose: to make your mother and father happy, to take away her tears with your kisses, to bring her/ them joy. You wrote: “They always told me I was their light, that even their friends would notice..”- that was your success. You had a goal and you achieved it. That success made you feel special and confident.

Problem: “they are still miserable and depressed’- mission failed, you realize. Your goal is gone and so is your specialness and confidence.

And then there was that relationship, a man you perceived to be at one point “your savior”-

you didn’t share much about it, how it came about. If you looked at him as your savior, I imagine that it was after you realized you failed aim #1: to make your parents happy, am I correct?

anita