He Hid Eleven Years of His Mother’s Invitations in a Cedar Box — and Told Both Sides the Other One Was the Problem
Grayson lurched around the table, hands out, trying to put himself between his mother and me.
“Mom — Mom, stop.
Don’t listen to her, she’s not well.
Sloan, this is a breakdown, you’re having a breakdown.
Get back in the car.
We will talk about your mental health at home, in private, where you can calm down.”
It was masterful, in its way.
Even then, even cornered, his first instinct was to reach for the oldest weapon in his collection — to make me the unstable one, the hysterical wife, the problem to be managed.