HI Deli,

If you have posted this before I don't remember it! either we are two of a kind or this is new lol....

I readi a little book that was an allegory about trauma and therapy (not much from a literary standpoint) which told the story of a little girl whose Dad took her far out into the woods, and then left her there... eventually she found her way home and when she looked through the windows of her house, there was her family having a great old time together - without her.

It seems that certain relationships in life are basic & serious enough that we do feel a right to get support and care - parents, spouse, children, possibly a few others - and if it can't be given, that's one thing, but if it is simply NOT given, one feels robbed, cut off from one's moorings, and it's traumatic. just my $0.02 (USD)