I have not seen my daughter since that last time when I realized how skinny she was. I seldom hear from her, and if I call, I don't get a call back. I don’t know what’s going on with her, and I don’t get answers to my questions (you can’t if they don’t talk to you).
She has sent nice text messages telling me how much she
loves me and will make up all this lost time. She’ll even go as far as asking
to meet up on a Sunday. I’ll be excited for that, and she’ll inevitably blow me
off. This past Sunday was a case in point. Her text message said, “u, me,
food, Sunday J”
so how could I resist? I agreed, of course, but waited until Sunday morning to
follow up. I sent a text at 10 a. m. to confirm that we were still on, but
never heard back.
I set aside the day (stupidly, but hopefully), but ended up
going grocery shopping and taking a nap. Finally, my boyfriend invited me to
hike to relieve the stress and that helped a bit. That night I texted again, “Never
heard from you. You okay?” A while later I got, “Yeah, sick.” That’s it.
I wrote that she should’ve told me instead of blowing me off
once again. It wasn’t until the next day that she responded with an apology, in
which her excuse was that she slept the whole day and didn’t even realize the
day had come and gone. My response was the I didn’t know what to say, that it
wasn’t the first time, and I hoped she was feeling better. I haven’t heard a word
since. I left a voicemail yesterday with just a hello, but so far there's been nothing back.
