Dear Karen,

Thanks for sharing your experiences - funny, I think that their visit to see me 18 months ago triggered something similar. Even if I don't feel great about going to the UK at the moment, I'm working on improving my contact with a mixture of snail-mail and calls so they can see why I'm happy here. Hopefully with love and sensitivity I can do my best - although I suspect that my Dad too might need professional help. Thanks to everyone on this message board for their thoughts.