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

everybody just calm down?”

That sentence had become his favorite response whenever conflict involved his mother.

It didn’t matter who had caused the problem.

If he asked everyone to calm down, he could pretend he was neutral.

Claire closed her laptop.

“I am calm.”

Linda laughed.

“You certainly didn’t sound calm earlier when you started talking about this continue reading …