Not when Adele was exhausted and raw and would have wept with gratitude for a single kind gesture.

They asked only once they had understood that their rejection carried permanent consequences, which is to say they asked not out of love but out of accounting.

Adele did not close the door forever.

But she set terms, and she did not move them: mandatory family counseling, a written apology with no excuses in it, and a public acknowledgment of the coercion attempted at the hospital.

Leopold refused outright.

Ingrid agreed to counseling and quit after two sessions, complaining that the therapist was taking sides.