“Once I started therapy, I told my mother that I can’t imagine relating to a boy who didn’t have to work on himself”
I’m a big fan of Family First and have been even more impressed lately at the topics that have been presented and the issues that have been tackled. Our world needs to learn about the complications that are around us and I think it’s healthy that Family First does not shy away from those stories and articles.
It is in this vein that I was surprised while reading the Family Connections in which a brave young lady posed a dilemma that was predicated on a faulty mindset, one with which I assumed Mrs. Radcliffe would take issue right off the bat.
The 19-year-old wrote that she’d been experiencing “emotional instability in recent years,” which left her depressed and anxious. She explained that she had “spoken to my parents about it, but they’re fiercely against the idea of therapy, afraid that it’s going to ruin my name in shidduchim,” and then went on to elaborate a bit more about her situation.
As I read her letter, I braced myself for what I thought would be the obvious reaction: an answer that would address this line first and set the writer and her parents straight.
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