This time I want to rant about my daughter.

I believe she has always resented my leaving her step father (she was 22 at the time), which is a whole other rant.

Anway, she has largely ignorred me ever since. She has remained stubbord despite my fluctuating mental health. Even my being hospitalized most of the summer seemed to cause barely a ruffle.

She calls only when she must - usually because someone else has told her to.

Two things this last month she has done really hurt. She lives 7hrs away and I never see her. Someone let it slip that she was coming to the city for a relative's (not my side) birthday party. I believe she would never have said anything if it wasn't for this person letting it drop. She called me because she 'had to'. We did get together for a breakfast, but it felt strained. Again I got the sense she did so only because she had to.

Well, this morning I found out she is going out of the country today. DOn't you think this is something you'd tell your mother?