Dear Elizabeth:

I am definitely interested in you keeping me updated! Good to read that you are doing so much better and that your therapy sessions are going well!

Reading your update regarding Christopher makes me think of how often we don’t really know the people we feel so close to. Sometimes we need so desperately to have an honest, loving, trustworthy person in our lives, that we imagine someone to be that person..  seeing what we need to see, not who and what is really there.

“I turned down a marriage proposal and broke up with my current long-distance boyfriend… a very strange man and I always got a weird vibe off of him. He kept pushing to get married, but I guess it’s because I have a stable job and he is looking for someone to take care of him. I nipped that in the bud…  I was not going to risk my son’s safety for anyone. He is a divorcee and the circumstances of the divorce that was narrated to me did not convince me. I felt like I needed to get the ex’s perspective too“-

– I copied this part because it is worth reposting: it is wonderful, that you nipped that in the bud, admirable that you cared for your son in this way. Congratulations for doing the right thing for yourself and for your son!

anita