I Supported My Son For Years Then They Tried To Question My Stability – The Archivist

always had. “It’s not about what she did. It’s about what you’re going to do. You’re going to help your sister. That’s what family does.”

I let the word settle in the air between us.

Family.

I’ve thought a lot over the years about what that word was supposed to mean in our house versus what it actually meant in practice. There’s a version of it that continue reading …