Dear joanna:

I didn’t expect you to promise me anything. Not at all, not for a second. Neither did I consider a possibility that you will change how you see this man Tom. Or that you will stop seeing him.

I do have a negative feeling about Tom the person he really is. It makes me a bit sick to think of this person using you the way he is. It sickens me. The thought that he is doing this again and again disturbs me.

I mean, it isn’t right. It angers me. I suppose I do feel angry, angry at him for misusing you. The fact that you allow it is sickening, of course. But it doesn’t change the fact that he is 100% responsible for choosing to take advantage of a woman who is not well.

anita