Thanks. I have said that I have everything under control. This doesn't stop them, so I don't answer calls. I do return calls in time just to not be rude. Then, the inevitable, so blah blah blah. Why don't you do this... comes out. Or, what are you doing about this situation. These people care, but it is driving me away from them.
I have told them how much happier I am now, but my life is far from where it was going a year ago. They know this and I think want to steer me back to the "normal/appropriate" life I had. I also feel them keeping me at a distance too where once they would not have. This I believe is in part due to me not being where "they" think I should be.
I have not returned a family member's call in a while due to this exact thing...I feel tremendous guilt for that.