Family boundaries and celebrations: Why exclusion from a dinner plan led to a difficult decision regarding a birthday event

is discreet, but such blatant, sloppy misconduct violated the unspoken code. They had embarrassed themselves, and by extension, their peers.

Paradoxically, my business didn’t suffer. It thrived.

Clients who had once looked down on me as the “upstart” now looked at me with new respect. They saw a woman who had stood up to the Caldwell machine and walked continue reading …