My Son Said He’d “Handled Everything” — Including My Savings and My Home

a negotiation, and she made it without obvious malice, which I found in some ways more troubling than malice would have been. She genuinely seemed to believe that the situation was one in which reasonable people could find a middle ground.

I let her finish.

“Lauren,” I said, “I don’t have anything to negotiate. The legal process is underway. The outcomes continue reading …