Cobra: your FOO analysis may be correct, but I don't agree w/ any of your conclusions. I don't blame anyone for my career loss...it was nobody's fault, least of all, mine. I did everything right. I may be angry at "fate", but that's it. If anything, my parents treatment of me made me more independant...and I don't think anyone that knows me would describe me as "non-assertive".
now I have these visions of "Darth vs. Luke" (they've been running the series recently on HBO...I watch too much tv.). "You must face your father"... "do not deny the power of the dark side!" "your feelings betray you..."