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

The proposed settlement was a pittance—an insulting fraction of what I was legally entitled to. But the real knife to the heart wasn’t the money. It was the document clipped to the back.

It was a script. An actual, typed script.

It outlined exactly how Sean was to announce our impending divorce at his mother’s birthday dinner. It contained specific continue reading …