I Came Home Early and Found My Pregnant Wife on the Floor—Then I Saw the Notes She Had Been Keeping About My Mother

But the real answer was earlier than all of that.

I would stop training the people I love to believe my attention must be earned.

Every time Evelyn said:

“Can we talk?”

And I answered:

“After this meeting.”

Every time she raised concern and I said:

“That’s just Mom.”