My Son Left Me Behind on Thanksgiving and Flew His Family to Hawaii—So Friday Morning, I Called Movers and Took Back Everything I Had Paid For
“But that is for the grown-ups to manage.
You don’t need to fix it.”
They accepted the answer.
Children often do when adults avoid making them responsible for complicated relationships.
Daniel and I had more difficulty.
He called regularly.
Sometimes simply to talk.
Other times because old habits returned.