My Six-Year-Old Daughter Knocked the Tea From My Hand and Pointed at My Wife—Then the Spill Started Foaming on the Marble
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Chapter 25 - Lily and Nora
The hardest question was contact.
Nora was Lily’s mother.
That fact did not disappear.
Neither did safety.
Family court professionals became involved.
Therapists.
Attorneys.
Child specialists.
Contact, when and if allowed, was structured around Lily’s best interests and applicable orders.
I did not use Lily as punishment.
I also did not pretend biology erased danger.
Initially:
No direct contact.
Later:
Therapist-mediated letters.
One began:
Lily, you did the right thing when you told Daddy not to drink the tea.
May you like
I cried reading that.
At least Nora did not ask Lily to keep another secret.
