Dear Maria:

leaving the nest, letting go of the security blanket, terms you use, are scary prospects, not only for you. A young child stays around his mother, then goes investigate away from her for a little while, then comes back to her, then goes investigate maybe a bit longer. It is in best circumstances a gradual process. You didn’t experience this with your parents, so you are lingering around this older man. Do it gradually, somehow, not all at once. Bit by bit. Somehow do it gradually, like the young child in my example…?

anita