"Mmmmmm," I said, pondering this. "I don't know if that fits me at all."

"It could also be about letting go enough to allow someone else to control you."

"I hate that."

"Do you really?" she asked. "I mean obviously you think you do, or you wouldn't have said so. But in essence, that's what you've allowed that younger woman to do to you ongoingly, and although it's not quite the same, it's what you allowed... and even encouraged me to do to you just now."

"Tonight has been totally different. Like you pointed out, you provided a safe place for me. With you I feel nurtured instead of beaten...