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Elizabeth, welcome to the program.

Hi Dr. Lara, it's an honor to speak with you.

Thank you.

Hi.

Well, so I have an issue with a cousin that just kind of I've been for similar age. We've grown up together. We were best friends all through childhood and we had it when high school rolled around, our relationship kind of became strained, I think I was sort of taken for granted.

And then, but I kind of stuck with it and have always stuck.

Here we are both now 40.

She has older children, I have younger children, and we had an incident happen about a week ago.

She had a birthday party for her 14-year-old and had invited us. We had had a stomach

virus, my whole family, I've had kind of a bad stomach virus a few weeks prior.

So prior, right before the party, she texted me and said, hey, I hear you're really sick.

I guess I won't see you at the party.

And I replied and said, no, we're actually doing quite a bit better.

We'll, I think we're fine to come to the party.

And she responded that that's not what I hear.

I've heard from my dad because our parents are siblings.

I hear from my dad that you're really sick and that you still got all these problems and I said well

I mean she goes in and it spread very easily and I responded that no

That's not true. We weren't still sick, but I don't want to freak anybody out by coming to the party, so I

I woke up and the conversation deteriorated from there

Really quickly to where she was accusing oh I'm sorry to what what it did what did it turn into? It ended up where she was accusing me of always exposing the

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