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

traveling up through the soles of his boots. The metal cages nearby seemed to hum with the intensity of it.

Karen stopped dead in her tracks.

“Let’s keep moving,” she said, her voice pitching up a notch, laced with sudden nervousness. “That’s… that is one of our more difficult cases.”

Ethan tilted his head, his ear angling toward the source of the chaos.continue reading …