Dear Palegazasunnidays:

You are welcome. It looks like growing up, you took on a co-parent role, co-parenting your mother and brother. Seems to me that your mother dealt with her anxiety by taking on a helpless-child role (not consciously, I figure),  and you and your father shouldered the weight of life. I wonder if your father’s anxiety since June last year has to do with taking care of his helpless wife for too long…?

“I almost feel manipulated. I feel quite angry with myself“- he surely manipulate you: when he invited you to dinner at his place, he didn’t tell you that he intended to ask you to stay overnight, did he? He didn’t let you know that he was pursuing you as a friend-with-benefits, he.. just went for it. It happens often that a girl or a woman just wants to be touched, held.. but the man has other ideas. Are you going to end contact with A?

anita