At Mother’s Day Dinner My Family Made A Decision For Me And The Next Morning Everything Changed

Every time Colette’s choices became a family emergency and my life became the resource available to solve it. Every time my contentment was read as emptiness and my independence as selfishness.

I smiled, because I knew if I spoke while I was this angry, I would say something true and irreversible, and I was not yet sure I was ready for that.

Then I pushed continue reading …