An Ambulance Took My Mother to the Hospital—When I Returned for Her Medical Folder, I Found My Mother-in-Law Moving Into Her Apartment

Increasingly.

Did he apologize without asking me to comfort him?

Usually.

Did he still become defensive sometimes?

Absolutely.

Human beings remain inconveniently human after therapy.

Ophelia changed more slowly.

Her first attempt at apology came through a potted cactus.