Is it normal this took a long time to start bothering me?

I’ve talked about this subject a lot, and you might have seen it before. In high school I became very overprotective over a friend of mine, especially when she started driving. Admittedly I took this way too far and got caught up in my own paranoia.

But looking back, here’s probably the weirdest thing: I wasn’t even that bothered when she initially told me. I just wished her the best of luck, and she chuckled at it (ok we were actually talking over Facebook messenger, but she said “ha ha, yeah”) since we both had worries.

But it wasn’t until MONTHS later that I really got worried about her, and still to this day I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I started seeing her more regularly again, or because I was hearing more about accidents, I’m not sure.