I just need to complain a bit. Just to shape the discomfort and anger and shame into words and thereby, I hope, let those feelings go.

There is a woman I'm acquainted with on another social media website. We met years ago when she sought others' perspectives on a particular type of person in her life. I offered my thoughts, she was grateful, and while I believed at first that this person and I would become friends, it wasn't long before I was disabused of that notion.

( Since then, I've held an uneasy distance from her.... )