Every time Tyler made a mistake, Roy rushed in to fix it.
By the time Tyler turned 18, he had learned two things.
His parents would pay for whatever he needed.
Roy would clean up whatever went wrong.
So when Tyler was suspended from school for shoving another student during an argument, my in-laws did what they always did.
They made him someone else’s problem.
They arrived at our house on a Friday evening with Tyler, one suitcase, and a grocery bag full of snacks.
« We already paid for the resort, » my mother-in-law explained. « We can’t cancel now. »
I stared at her.
They were leaving for a two-week tropical vacation.
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