Dear Elizabeth:

It’s good to read that you are feeling better and beginning to get your old self back!

“I am..  genuinely looking for the lesson in all this“-

– maybe, just maybe there is something to learn from this sentence: “its sad that this person didn’t even realize how genuinely i felt about him. he has no idea that i was one of those people in his life that will always want the best for him“: it reads like a big part of your pain has been that he failed to recognize and value your love for him.. that your love for him was lost on him.

Am I understanding correctly?

I am asking because a big part of my pain in another relationship context, the one with my mother, was that she treated my pure, intense and unconditional love for her as if it was nothing, or something disposable, of no value. It used to be impossible for me to understand how something that felt so big and strong and full of life (my love for her).. could go unnoticed or unappreciated by her.

anita