Access to my children is something you earn, if you ever earn it at all, and you have not begun to.”

I set conditions.

Family counseling, real and sustained.

A full, written acknowledgment of what she had done, in her own words, with nothing softened.

And no contact of any kind with Mason and Lucas until Rosalind and the boys’ own child psychologists judged, independently, that it was safe and right for them — the children’s readiness, not my mother’s wishes, deciding the matter.

She agreed to all of it.