hi Cosmic Rose, thanks for writing and for sharing your thoughts.

I appreciate you advising me not to say 'I don't want to push you away' - but I'm not sure what would have been best to say instead. The reason I said it was because in the next breath I said 'but I can't understand why you didn't stay at your dad's then'.

I'm sorry if this seems dense - I'm not sure I'm getting what I should be saying or how best to handle this in a way which is supportive. My son has told me that I'm crap at social skills (but I do have several good friends) - I know that I've been pretty stuck ever since I've been on this type of med because it suppresses emotions - so I might be slow to pick things up.