In my youth and stupidity, I was constantly playing this game of tag — I'm hard to find, easy to lose, and you absolutely have to get me back, well, you get the idea.

Once and for all, a wonderful man put my head in place, who from my very first performance simply said goodbye to me.

Thanks to him for calmly explaining to me what a healthy relationship is before this.

It was as if I saw the game I was playing from the outside. And that this was my mother's way of behaving, which I had simply accepted as the norm since childhood.