This is sounding more and more famliar. I didnt' think I was a favorite, but I thought I was special along with several others. She did lower boundaries for me. She did seem to be very maternal towards me. She rescued me at times, I think. Sometimes I wonder if the fact that she did these things for me led her to expect a certain level of compliance that I couldn't give. I don't know. That's not what she said. But she was trying to get me to be more compliant with her thinking, and when I couldn't do that things started falling apart. I can only see this in retrospect, and I don't know the whole story because she hasn't told her side of it - she just asked for a break and several months later sent me a Dear John letter. I believe she was really regretful. I don't believe she has owned, and probalby recognized, her part in it So that's just my speculation.