Dear Queenie,
An older woman who is a friend of mine has been a mentor and like a mother to me. She has helped me through some bad times in my relationship with my married boyfriend, which she doesn’t approve of, and when I decided to break up with him she gave me her full support.
But I just couldn’t stick to my decision and now she is turning away from me and giving me the “cold shoulder.”
Queenie, I feel so alone without support!—Young friend
Dear Friend,
Your “mother figure” disapproved of your relationship to begin with and now apparently she is fed up with your inability to stick to your decision to end it. If you are lucky and find it within yourself to end this relationship of which she (and I) disapproves, perhaps you will be able to patch things up with her. But as for the relationship with your boyfriend, you should end it for your own sake, not for hers.
