Is it normal to feel bad about this?
I’ve talked extensively about this subject, but there’s one detail I feel especially bad about. So in high school I became good friends with a girl who I had a crush on, and I increasingly became more protective over her. We both had fears related to driving, but eventually she managed to get through it and start driving, whereas all these years later I still don’t feel ready. This especially makes me feel bad because she told me that once when she was younger she was in a car that flipped over, and I’ve never been through anything nearly that bad! It was also scary to imagine her being in any kind of danger, because like I said I became protective, probably overprotective. I just feel awful that I’m so worked up over this when people who have been through so much worse than me can somehow do just fine!