My 25-Year-Old Daughter Suddenly Stopped Visiting—When I Found Out Her Real Reason, I Went Pale

She didn’t call on New Year’s.

By February, I’d stopped setting her place at the table. I told myself it was just temporary. That adults go through phases, and that it was okay.

That maybe Nina would realize that she still needed her mother, and she’d call out of the blue one Sunday, and everything would fall back into place.