Andrea,

I just want to back up what Mary Alice said. She said it excellently well - just what I was going to tell you. You are not weak by any means. It is a tremendous burden to be the one who stays upbeat to try to keep everyone else from sinking too low, and there is nothing wrong with needing to take a break from that. I hope that you will relax and have some fun and take good care of yourself and your own needs. You just can't carry everyone else forever and go on like that. I hope that they are okay too, but they have got to take responsibility for themselves.

<font color=orange>"If we are going to insist that people pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, we must ensure that they have boots."</font color=orange>