Dear Derek:

You are welcome. If you would like to share: what about the conversation with your brother distressed you so?

You mentioned in your earlier post that your mother got you a dog at 17, then sold it in front of you two weeks later, and later telling you that you could have stopped her from selling the dog. Why did she sell the dog, was she aware that it upset you that she did, and did she respond to your distress by blaming you for her choice to sell the dog (her comment about stopping her)?

anita