At 53, My Mom Finally Started Dating Again—When I Met the Man Making Her So Happy, I Waited Until He Left and Said, “Mom, You Need to Know Who He Really Is”
Or exhaustion.
Possibly both.
Mom once told me the hardest part was not learning who Julian had been.
It was realizing he expected to retain the relationship after telling her she did not need the whole truth.
“He kept saying what we had was real,” she told me.
I asked:
“Wasn’t it?”
She thought.