DEAR DR. GOTT: I belonged to a little writing group for a couple of years. The leader was an elderly lady who motivated us all to write our memoirs. She had written a couple of books herself.
I loved her dearly but one day when I was having lunch at her home, I noticed that a book lying on a table had some of the pages up in the air, so I suddenly got up to fix it. “You are obsessive-compulsive”, she said knowingly. It was a shock to me. Perhaps she is right but I never thought of it before.
What do you think is at play here? She also told me that I had a big ego. In the past she told me that she loved me so her criticism was hard to take.
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