CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

that adults are stronger than temptation. It had cost holidays their innocence, phone calls their ease, and every family photograph going forward the clean simplicity of before.

What it had not cost—what I refused to let it cost—was the children’s future understanding of right and wrong.

That matters.

People talk about loyalty as though it is proven by continue reading …