Dear Lea:

You share that at 19, you live with your parents and your extroverted 12-year-old sister. Your father works so many hours that he is at home only in the mornings and late at night. You spend 98% of your time alone. You go to school, and you raise cows. Sometimes showing them (livestock shows). You’ve had no friends since you were 13, and you never dated.

“I always play victim, a quality I completely despise in myself. I can gaslight myself into believing anything. But it’s always poor me. Ugh”

– in some ways, you really are a victim, truly. Some of what you believe is really true.

In what ways have you truly been a victim so far in life, please tell me.

anita