Author: Walton Merritt
**Diary Entry – A Lesson in Boundaries** The pot lid clinked quietly against the countertop.
“Even the dog won’t eat your meatballs,” the man laughed, tossing the food away.
“Mum, we’re… busy!” shouted the man when his mother-in-law walked in without knocking!
They had always lived as three: Grandma Vera, Mum Valerie, and Annabel. Annabel had no memory of her father.
He Wanted a Family It’s not just women who struggle in matters of the heart—men do too. Victor was one of them.
“You’re nothing without me,” the man told me. But a year later, he was begging me for
I pulled him out of that world, and he found another. But my parting gift shattered them. —I’m leaving
*”That’s my sister!”* the man gasped as his little sister set up a barbecue right in the
“Thank you, son, for the wonderful celebration!” said my mother-in-law at the table I had