“She said that she feels like she’s been constantly put in a position where she needs to worry about one thing or the other, and I don’t know how to stop making her feel that way. It’s not like I’m doing it deliberately, but regardless, I don’t want to lose her. It’s obvious that she misses the life that she used to lead before she became involved with us, and I’m scared that she’ll long for it more than she longs to stay with the girls and I.”
“Did she say that to you herself? In as many words?”
“No, not directly. But I can’t help but feel like she implies it more than she needs to.”
My mother was quiet for quite some time after I had said that, and I knew that it was bound to be because she was thinking about everything that I had just
