My mother-in-law pointed at the door during New Year’s dinner and snapped, **“If you don’t like my rules, get out!”** – Welcome

” he said.

“She is,” I agreed. “She is also part of my life. She has been for a year and a half, and she will be going forward.”

He nodded. Not the nod of agreement, exactly. The nod of someone accepting a fact rather than continuing to contest it.

“I thought I was protecting you,” he said.

“I know,” I said. “But what I needed was for you to trust me.”

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