Mouse,

I'm glad you had such an insight from your therapy appointment. It was a case of allowing your past to influence your feelings about your daughter's present. It's amazing how entangled these things are, isn't it? Yet it's a lightbulb moment when we realize where our problems and pain are coming from and can work on them. It sounds like your teen years were very difficult and you were doing what you could to avoid acknowledging the pain. I'm also very glad that you had a second chance.