She could have replied, “All we can do is the best we can do.” It’s not like she can do anything about her stepdaughter now, if she ever could.
No, and I’ve heard both sides of the growing up process. I’m inclined to side with Carol on that because my FD went through a lot of the same growing pains. The difference being that she was only five when her mother passed and PW was 14. Carol and I were both adults at the time, so we have a totally different perspective.
And I’m getting another migraine. My vision is getting wonky, so I’m going to go take a shower and see if I can get it to settle down, rather than morph into a full-blown optic and capillary migraine.
The hot water may not be what I need, but there is always an ice pack.