Yup. You're right about my other posts. Thank you very much for that thought.... that since I don't know why something happened, I don't know how to keep it from happening again. That's exactly it! That's why many have said that it's possible she just got too attached, and when she realized it, she spooked. Either that or she confided in a colleague or something about me, and they told her she was "in too deep." These are the only things I can come up with, and of course, she wouldn't want to admit either of those to me . That would be admitting possible wrong-doing I suppose. But yes, I'm driving myself crazy watching and waiting for the *next* thing to be taken away or changed. Now she didn't offer checking in while she's gone. I wouldn't think anything of it except that she has always made a point to offer before. Ugh. I'm driving myself crazy.