I don't know about you, but my tumultuous upbringing caused me to form friendships with people, which, in my heart, went above and beyond friendship. Most of us having come from broken homes, we found comfort in each other. This is a trait I carried long into adulthood and it's made it particularly difficult to let people go and accept that our paths, although crossed for a deep and meaningful time, have now reached a fork or separation which we need to explore on our own.