“Then I am genuinely struggling to understand this.”
He sighed.
“It started because she was dropping something at her sister’s every morning. She said she’d only be five minutes.”
“And then?”
“Then you complained.”
I blinked.
“That’s why she kept doing it?”
His face told me the answer.
“Oh my God.”
My MIL Promised to Pick Me up After Surgery – I Waited Three Hours Before Learning Where She Really Was
My Neighbor Parked in My Driveway for Six Months – One Morning, She Came Outside and Found 30 Cars Behind Hers
I Let a Homeless Elderly Man Sleep on My Porch During a Storm – The Next Morning, What He Left Under My Doormat Brought Me to Tears
“It became a point of pride.”
“For 22 mornings?”
“I’m not defending her.”
“It sounds like you’re explaining a toddler.”
“That’s not entirely unfair.”
I almost laughed.
Then he said something that made the whole thing sadder.
“She thinks backing down means somebody has controlled her.”
