family boundaries

21 Jul, 2026

2007 was not an easy year. When my elderly mother moved into our already overcrowded house, each family member had to adjust to the uncomfortable reality of living with an elderly parent. First, we had to move and rearrange rooms in the house we had initially planned for three family members.

14 Jul, 2026

The peace in our home was already fragile when my mother came to live with me. What followed was a quiet unravelling shaped by differences related to faith, distance, and long-held resentments. Sharing a home forced those differences into the open and pushed me to draw boundaries I had long avoided.