Mom Said The Anniversary Trip Was Canceled Because Of Budget Issues. A Week Later I Found A Facebook Album Of My Family In Paris Without Me. Then She Asked Me For Help

“And if he reverts to old patterns afterward?”

“Then I’ll grieve that,” I said. “And I’ll move on.”

The surgery went as surgeries go when they are well-planned and well-executed: harder on the body than expected, exactly as difficult as I’d been told to prepare for. Six days in the hospital. Four weeks before I felt like myself. Three months before continue reading …