I keep wondering why she doesn’t just cut us off, but a therapist says this is how she is choosing to communicate.
DEAR BEWILDERED: I agree that erecting and enforcing boundaries is a form of control. Healthy boundaries help all of us to establish our autonomy, essentially keeping others from encroaching and overwhelming us.
I wonder if her choice to switch to postal mail is an attempt to simply slow things down. Texts and calls might seem startling to her right now, pressuring her to rise to contact that she can’t manage.
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