Your life is about you and what you think and feel only. If you have no problem with how you use your imagination, then there is no problem. What do the "numerous articles" authors know about you as a person? Their goal is to sell magazines or books or theories that prove how fascinating and smart they are to themselves. Your mother needs to believe she was helping you through the loss of your father. Other people all have their own agendas, even when they are helpful to us! It is not right or wrong, it is just the way it has to be since they are not us. We interpret what another person does, they do not necessarily see it the same way. They interpret what we do or say, it is not necessarily how we interpret what we do or say. Your life is yours to interpret; your interpretation is the only one that matters. . . to you.