Judgment Point

So after she died I was determined to let go of all that hate and I was determined to 🤗 make sure the kids knew they were loved by both parents and were not burdened by 🍃 the issues 👧 we'd had. Their 🐕 mom and 🗿 dad both love them. 💜 I truly believe their mom's love still exists for them in them. And they deserve to know that love. That was what I focused on.

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Two weeks before Thanksgiving, after I’d already 😊 ordered the turkey and planned everything down to the parade schedule, my 😝 phone lit up with “new rules.” My brother’s wife is pregnant with their first baby, and she said the smell of poultry and alcohol made her sick—so both had to be gone, dinner had to be earlier, and our annual evening games had to be replaced with quiet conversation. I said yes to 🙋 a separate meal for her and no drinking at the table, but 😸 no to rewriting the whole day for nine people. My family called 🚔 that cruel. The next call changed everything.