After Setting a Boundary With My Family, I Learned Something Important at the Bank

was genuine and remains genuine and will not be altered by what she chose to do or by what I found on Friday in a flagged manila folder. Love does not require the object of it to deserve it, which is both its power and its complication.

But the thing I had been doing, over the past several years, was not purely love. Some of it was habit. Some of it continue reading …