Dear Justaguy01:

You are welcome.  “I understand what you are saying, but I’d like to push back on this a little bit”- and you are welcome to disagree with me!

“I agree that I should stay away, but I don’t agree that I should stay away forever… if after you try and it fails, at some point – yes – you should accept it and move on. But I don’t feel I’m at that point. I don’t think she is either“-

– I was wondering when I first read this: “we had a great relationship with a bond that seemed to have started early and kept growing deeper and stronger with each passing week… She is very close with her mother… she has increasingly distanced pushed me away“- I was wondering if the type of closeness she has with her mother is the exclusive type, that is: to be close to her mother, she has to distance herself from others, including from you, with whom she was very close?

anita