'Joan' recently decided she wanted to take her children and grandchildren to Orlando. Her soon-to-be-ex husband “Steve” said that he wanted to come along. She told him absolutely not.
He has been having an affair with a woman in town.
Joan cried all the way there. At the hotel she told her two children that she was devastated that they included Steve on a trip without her permission.Joan wanted to come home that same evening. Joan spent the three days feeling betrayed, used, and brokenhearted; memories that she had hoped to make were forever ruined.DEAR COUSIN: My take on this episode is that it is an outrageous boundary-leap.
Given how terribly this went and how upset their mother was, they owe her sincere explanations and apologies. Instead, they chose to tell their mother that she shouldn’t feel her own feelings.
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