“And he’s 40, Sylvia. You have to let him go at some point.”
That landed harder than I expected.Tara continued more gently.
“Do you remember what you said when your cousin got divorced?”
I did.
“People give up too easily now.”
I’d said it at my kitchen table.
Adam had heard me.
After we hung up, I called him.
He answered with, “Mom, not tonight.”
“You have two children.”
“We were arguing constantly. We were making the house miserable.”
“So you left?”
“I moved out before we started saying things we couldn’t take back.”
“Marriage gets hard, Adam. Your father and I had years when we barely liked each other.”
“And you think that means Tara and I should copy you?”
“No. I think you shouldn’t walk away too fast.”
He gave a bitter laugh.
“There it is, Mom. I know you’d do this.”
“Adam…”
