Re: Bruce B/Pepper P
Bruce, that little girl is safe. The people employed by CPS apply to be there because they want to protect children. Unless you signed up to holding onto her knowing she'd been kidnapped, then you didn't break a promise: you ensured she was safe. You cannot calibrate your own decisions based on the decisions of other people. And you're not a medical doctor, that's why you shouldn't be administering medical care, not because you make bad decisions when it's personal.
You go out in this city, in this door, to make the connections that will make you less likely to leave. You don't let yourself sink into a depressive funk. If you want to keep trying, you keep trying with people. You don't need a break from most people, you need a break from the ones you think you've let down.