Dear C:

I think that she is interested in escaping her mother for a little while, as often as she can, “going back to dating for the escapism”, as you wrote. It is also a possibility, a very likely possibility in my mind, that she will jump at the opportunity, if it presents itself to her, that a man will take on her burden for her, freeing her from it: meeting a man wealthy enough to pay her mother’s bills.

Basically, I see your possible role in her life as either a distraction or a man who will pay her mother’s bills.

I think she sincerely liked you, or at times still likes you, but that liking dwarfs when in context of her greatest need: to escape her mother, preferably long term by having someone else take on her current burden.

Why not present what I wrote here to her, ask her if she believes it is true, why not do that as your next communication to her?

anita