Suzanne Collins also said that movie director Gary Ross was true to the book version. But she said he was also able to provide a rich and powerful new look into the future she created.

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Advice for Two Women

JUNE SIMMS: Debby Rubenfeld has been giving a lot of thought to a couple of people who sent in problems to our relationship blog. Ms. Rubenfeld is a licensed clinical social worker in the Washington, DC area. We spoke with her briefly last week. And today we share more of her guidance for two young women, one an eighteen year old Russian; the other is twenty-five and from Brazil.

Both women reported that their boyfriends were unkind. One wrote that her boyfriend treated her as if she did not matter. The other expressed a sense of being used for sex. She wrote, “My love was trampled under his foot.”

Now, both women find it difficult to break away from the former relationships and move forward. Debby Rubenfeld says they need to build belief and trust in themselves.

Debby Rubenfeld

DEBBY RUBENFELD: “Lingering attachments to unkind men can suggest a lack of confidence in one’s own ability to read a situation correctly. It isn’t that you aren’t reading a situation correctly; it’s that you don’t trust that you are.”

Ms. Rubenfeld says there is a simple way to start to build one’s confidence. Try something new.