My daughter Sarah sent me a message saying that she and her husband, David, needed distance from me and wanted me to stop contacting them. What made it painful was that I had been paying their $1,200 mortgage, $450 car payment, and phone bills every month. So I decided to respect her request completely. I stopped the payments, removed their phones from my plan, and told her calmly that if she wanted distance, the financial support would stop too. By the next morning, both of them were furious because they had expected emotional distance without losing the money I provid…Continue Reading
