They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

“I used to lecture parents about that distinction all the time. They never listened.”

“They rarely do,” he said.

I paced to the window and back. The anger in my chest was still there, but it had shifted, finding a new shape. Someone had drawn a line without asking me, and I wanted very badly to redraw it on my own terms.

“We could ignore it,” I suggested.continue reading …