“At 3:15 a.m., I Heard My Son Tell His Wife How to Drain My Account”

after Mark got laid off from his previous job and Clare quit hers because, as she explained with a delicate sigh, “The environment was just so toxic, Eleanor. You understand.”

I told myself it was just a rough patch. That a mother helps her children when they stumble. That it would pass.

Mark was forty-one years old. He’d been married to Clare for six continue reading …