One for Sorrow

Or perhaps if the closeness never was (or was stopped in childhood), then that could mean that your grown-up relationship wouldn't be either. Which would open up a whole void of 'but what am I doing if it's not that?'

It's interesting that this is a recurring dream, and that you write for children, so you are in that world anyway even as adults. There's definitely a meaning there simply dying to be read.