My Daughter-in-Law Threw Ice Water on Me for Sleeping at 9 A.M.—She Had No Idea Whose House She Was Trying to Take
Earlier.
You can own that without blaming yourself for what another person chose afterward.
Important distinction.
If there is one thing I wish older parents understood, it is this:
Loving adult children does not require making yourself available for mistreatment.
Your child can be thirty.
Forty.
Fifty.