Glad to hear your daughter is doing better, it is a worry here too. D is only nine, but when she was slightly under the weather for a few days recently, she seemed a little too pleased by her flat stomach. It is sooooooo difficult to know how to handle the subject.
Also, I notcied for the first time in your situation summary, emotional aikido. I used to go to aikido classes many moons ago, and once read an interesting book about emtional aikido. Do you know the one I mean? Would you know the name of it? I would like to get it, if I can, but I suspect it may be out of print. I remember very well them describing the technique of mentally deflecting the force of another person's words away from you and perhaps even back on to them, so it doesn't affect you.
God, if you weren't there on my thread, gently pointing out other ways of seeing things in my situation, I'd be a basket case by now.
My H is very aggressive, not so much physically, but full of bluster and abuse, when he feels threatened. Why I don't I see it for what it is?
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates