This is both good and sucky for everyone. I feel for the family - glad for them to have some conclusion, but also sad for them to find out she just left.
We don’t know what the mum went on to do. Whether she just noped out and lived by herself, or even if she had another family. Many unanswered questions and all anyone is left with is more unanswered questions and more undeserved pain for this family.
All I’ll say, as a father of a couple of kids, is well done to the dad for holding them all together. I hope the mother will one day give them all the closure they deserve but I have a sneaking suspicion that all this will lead to is feelings of abandonment rather than loss.
I recently read a book where a “missing” character reappeared and the main characters had to confront her. Both knew/learnt during the books of her betraying them and being generally a shitty human being.
I was expecting a long speech, “my side of the story”, them finding closure with comprehension and maybe opening the door for a reconciliation, but was happy to see there was nothing like that, just “glad to see you’re alive, we don’t need you in our lives anymore, bye”.
The fact that one character was a talking cat with a tiara didn’t make it any less impactful.
The best for them would be to just have moved on and never found her, the second best would have been to not care anymore.
This is both good and sucky for everyone. I feel for the family - glad for them to have some conclusion, but also sad for them to find out she just left.
We don’t know what the mum went on to do. Whether she just noped out and lived by herself, or even if she had another family. Many unanswered questions and all anyone is left with is more unanswered questions and more undeserved pain for this family.
All I’ll say, as a father of a couple of kids, is well done to the dad for holding them all together. I hope the mother will one day give them all the closure they deserve but I have a sneaking suspicion that all this will lead to is feelings of abandonment rather than loss.
I recently read a book where a “missing” character reappeared and the main characters had to confront her. Both knew/learnt during the books of her betraying them and being generally a shitty human being.
I was expecting a long speech, “my side of the story”, them finding closure with comprehension and maybe opening the door for a reconciliation, but was happy to see there was nothing like that, just “glad to see you’re alive, we don’t need you in our lives anymore, bye”.
The fact that one character was a talking cat with a tiara didn’t make it any less impactful.
The best for them would be to just have moved on and never found her, the second best would have been to not care anymore.