Hi MessyD ,

Birds of a feather hey !!

I too find it hard to talk about and tell even close friends I am in therapy , the first person I told was my pharmacists , he said , hey everybody could use a tuneup now and then.

Just yesterday I told the lady who cuts my hair and has been for , well I have watched her 2 lovely daughters become beautiful loving wives with children of there own and they are both teachers , and yesterday was the first time I mentioned it , and she was fine with it and thought it was a great idea and was happy for me. ( It felt so good to get approval , why ? ).

There is this couple who own a failing meat-shop near where I live , and they are really nice people and I am pleased to call them friends , they print stuff out for me ( I don`t want a printer ) , and I sometimes feel bad to not be truthful with them and tell them I am being tutored in my writing skills by a retired school teacher , rather than tell them that what they were and are printing was for my therapist .

I would not want to lose there friendship , they are a really nice couple , but for some reason I have never been honest with them , that is about to change BTW.

I even offered to help there business thrive through online sales , stating for 50 % of online ( only ) gross , I would buy a website with there name , maintain it , do photo shoots , take care of customer service / orders , but they said 50% for doing nothing , I said it really is not nothing I would be paying for your web site / handling CS & orders / keeping the site updated , but they both agreed they had a relative down south who could do the same thing for nothing , so I said fine then , no hard feelings , they agreed and we are still very good friends and I still get my meat from them , but they still don`t have a website and are still sinking by the bow.

I would still keep them afloat if they wanted. Sorry off track .

I need them to know , and sometimes telling the truth to even those how do not understand may appreciate your honesty.

Take care , sorry for the long reply , I get carried away

Later

KP 