everyone else would rearrange their lives around hers.
But understanding someone’s behavior does not mean you have to surrender to it.
That was the lesson I had learned far later than I should have.
My house was never the thing I was fighting over.
It was the right to remain the owner of my own life.
And sometimes the best way to protect that right is not with shouting or revenge.
Sometimes you close your wallet, hand someone a cardboard box, and let adulthood begin.
