My male is white with ginger tabby markings, my female is tortie.  When I’m feeling really low she talks to me, one of the few times she makes any noise.  When in bed and I’m not settled she crawls in under the covers and curls into a ball between me and my arm.

so many things from our past also impact on things as adults we do.  One of the hardest things for me as an adult has been to feel ok about crying. Speaking to on call counsellor recently she helped me see this is due to words that were drilled into my brain through abuse in early teen years.  

it took me a long time to start to open up and talk about things without fear of being made to feel there was something wrong with me or be ridiculed