Dear mycartist:

When a big bad wolf huffs and puffs and threatens to blow your house down (from “The Three Little Pigs” story), you don’t open the door to the wolf. You don’t try to talk sense to the wolf. You don’t wait for his apology.

“Do I just cut my losses?”- yes. Make it so that there is absolutely no contact between you and him.

“Forgive and try to fix this?”- no, forgive and try to fix it, and you continue to be the victim of your big-bad-wolf-uncle.

“I’m afraid to open that door again”- understandably, there is a big-bad-wolf on the other side of the door, who wouldn’t be afraid.

anita