Just Tell Our Grown Kids We’re Sorry

It was heartbreaking to witness. My friend sat on my living room sofa, sobbing. I had never seen her cry before. She choked out, through tears, “Why can’t she just [blank] say she’s sorry?”

This sweet, gentle woman whom I’d rarely heard utter a mild swear word, much less the harshest of them all, was desperate for some kind of explanation. She was frustrated to the point of fury, and so sad. Why couldn’t her mother, after all these years, just say she was sorry? Our parents can break us to pieces, even when we are adults.