At Mother’s Day Dinner My Family Made A Decision For Me And The Next Morning Everything Changed

thought about all the dinners before this one, all the tasks handed to me, all the flexibility expected of me, all the times I had been available because being unavailable felt like the cruelest option. I thought about the red lipstick on my windshield and the four words chosen to justify it.

Family comes first.

I thought about what they had always meant continue reading …