debbie, that was a very scary experience for you and your husband. wow, i'd be sweating nails if someone stayed with me for that long. i'm really glad that you didn't go home and you went to the guard station.

you commented "about a sign hanging around your neck your mom's i.d. theft" got me thinking. how about this, debbie, try detaching a little bit more from what happened with your mother. keeping it close and dwelling upon it and talking about it frequently probably holds it closer to the surface of your mind/heart/emotions than you're aware of. then when something like this happens, it's "whoops, here we go again"......this man thing was an ioslated incident that just fell into your lap. try to not connect the dots everyt time something happens to you and those dots will probably quit going back to the trauma you felt when you had so much trouble with your mom's id issues. make sense? i hope i didn't offend you, just worried about your efforts for recovery. love, pat