It must be noted that Hearts Blessing wrote something intended to give a glimpse of her experience in her situation with her MLCer. It closely mirrors the Five Stages of Grief material by Kubler-Ross. Consider that the MLCer is greiving their percieved loss of youth. They want a Do-Over in life. They feel as if their very survival depends on a desparate attempt at this. Not because of what you did wrong, so much as what they believe to have been wrong in their life for a very long time.
But please, and we can't stress this enough ... don't read the Six Stages as a literal timeline. Don't gauge your situation in those terms of time. No two situations are the same. I can't count the times I have seen that reminder here, or the times people have been hurt trying to guess a timeline for themselves.
