anita,

Thank you for acknowledging that you sometimes feel annoyed and impatient, I worried at times that’s what was happening and I guess I just did not know how to handle it.

You have made a lot of connections between my experience with my mom and my social interactions. I guess I have known they were related for some time, since it is a big part of certain approaches in therapy. But then I am sort of left with …”well, now what?”

I am experiencing a big “now what?” in every aspect of my life right now it seems. The boyfriend I had has left me. I am not in college anymore.

I can tell myself or feel like I have some idea of what I need, like you said… someone who will give me approval and a connection… I just do not know how that would happen. I sometimes write to an imaginary mother, but it just makes me cry and feel very alone.

I am having trouble lately going between a motivation to make my life better, and then falling into an emptiness.