I Bought My Dream House and Invited My Family but No One Showed Up and Later My Dad Sent a Message

and a party was not the same as having been present. I told him I was not cutting him out, I was setting a boundary, and that the boundary should not have required capital letters on cardboard to become visible but apparently it had. Then I closed the door.

What followed the direct confrontations was the next phase, the one I had anticipated but hoped continue reading …