The Vocabulary Your Family Never Gave You
Your mother didn't say "I'm anxious and I need you close." She said, "You don't care about us anymore." Your father didn't say "I feel powerless watching you live a life I don't understand." He said, "After everything we've sacrificed." The words they reached for were the only ones available to them, a generation that learned love by measuring it in proximity, obedience, and the willingness to stay.
