Yes I did read that you thought maybe MLC was a part of this.
That is something that only you can decide.
Age has little to do with MLC believe it or not. I know we hear the jokes and stories about men in their 50's suddenly buying red convertibles and meeting a twenty something woman...
Throughout our lives we go through transition/adjustments at each different level of maturity we reach. Some of us handle it with no problem, some of us have a little difficulty but make it through, and some of us end up in crisis mode.
There are resources in the MLC forum if you want to read more about it.
You sound like you are beginning to find your way through this and that is wonderful.
As far as the apologies...
They will apologize and sometimes it seems sincere. Sometimes it doesn't. They are not totally oblivious in all of this. They don't intentionally want to hurt us. However, I believe that when they feel (have the impression) that we are hanging on even a little, they go into fight mode in order to push us further away. As if being cruel will drive the point home.
Anyway, I hope you have a good day.
"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it."--Michael J. Fox
