I almost returned it without reading the rest.

Then I decided to answer for the sake of clarity, not reconciliation.

“A relationship with me doesn’t give her a right to contact Maya or Liam,” I told Julian.

“Please make that plain.”
He drafted a response explaining the boundaries and the need for any contact to be voluntary.

I asked Maya if she wanted to read it.

She did, made one small change, and handed it back.

She replaced “until further notice” with “unless I choose otherwise.”
“I don’t want her waiting for an automatic expiration date,” Maya said.