Dear Nichole:

“I don’t know if she meant to be shaming but I felt shame. And I wished I could communicate better. But I just shut down and blocked her again”-

– if you contact her again, you have to stop jumping to conclusions (concluding that she meant to shame you, for example), assuming people meant to make you feel this or that way just because you feel it.

You have to learn to ask if what you assume and perceive is what was meant, ask before you block.

(I will be away from the computer for a few hours).

anita