Thank you kindly Nicolette. Glad I made some sense. ;-)

Thought of a story for you too Lexie. My son is currently on operations. Just before he deployed, my daughter was upset about it. Started being cold towards him and pushing him away, to deal with her worry about him and so forth. Then she felt guilty for her actions and discussed it with me. Might sound odd to a civilian, but I told her she did the right thing. She was helping Colin in fact. Colin later sent her a letter thanking her as well. He needed space from us, including her and she assisted him in achieving that.

Jim.