“I could hear what you were saying, but I kept looking for a way to prove you were overreacting.

When Grandma asked about Dad, I remembered being proud of him for taking care of Grandpa.

And I realized I was acting as if taking care of someone made me weaker.”

It was the most honest statement I had heard from him in weeks.

“I need boundaries,” I told him.

“My mother gets to stay in the downstairs room as long as her treatment team and she consider it appropriate.

You do not move her belongings or change her arrangements without speaking to her and me.