Detachment, anxiety and the end of limbo

[Phoebe]

Thanks, Jim. Sometimes all I can do is laugh about it, but it hasn't made the last 6 months any easier.

H was my main source of comfort and physical affection, and when he abdicated, there was not a lot of emotional support left in my life, and no physical affection. I kind of feel like I've had to invent my support system out of whole cloth. A little bit here, and a little bit there, a little more from somewhere else…

When I said that my therapist filled the role of the empathetic male figure in my life, I wasn't exaggerating.