Anita,

Yes, that makes sense. I think part of the reason why I don’t want to end contact with her is also that I am not close to many people. I have been feeling a distance growing between my friends from my hometown and me, I don’t have many friends in college, and so right now my cousin seems to be one of the few people I have in my life. I think the solution to that would be to make more friends, but that is something I’ve been having a lot of trouble with. I’m very shy and I don’t open up to people often. That is something I want to change about myself, but I don’t know how to do that.