Side Trip from Forward Motion

[BeingMe]

Beatrice, it makes sense. His mother is also ailing with altzheimers, and he probably feels guilty about not visiting her more often (she lives in our home country). She also left the family when he was 12 years old ... he came home from a camp, and she had moved out to live with someone else. She did visit them every day, until his dad remarried and the stepmother didn't want her there. He's had a hard childhood, emotionally speaking. He had everything a kid could want, except parental stability.

So, I guess he does have a lot of abandonment issues, but he wont't do counseling.