Dear Mary:

You are welcome. You can’t  “make everyone happy”, if you were able to do that, you’d be the wealthiest person in the world!

“I still remind her in person and via text how loved she is. I just wish it were enough”-

– what happens is that when a child is not loved, she feels that she is not worthy of love. There is a time- limited window of opportunity for a child to believe that she is worthy of love. When that window closes, the words don’t reach her anymore. They are not enough.

Your guilt.. I wonder if you felt guilty early on in your life, forming a core belief that you are responsible for making people happy, and that you are guilty if you fail to accomplish that?

anita