My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It
Eleanor reduced relationships to variables.
Once you do that, other people’s consent becomes inconvenient.
They stop being people whose boundaries matter.
They become information problems.
I refuse to live that way.
The notebook taught me that certainty can become a dangerous appetite.
There are things I do not know.
About Thomas.
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