I Let the Comments Coach My Timid Mom to the Top
She wasted her youth on a deadbeat, and now he's gaslit her out of even wanting the money.
[Being a lovesick fool will wreck you!]
I nodded along, cheering her on. "See? Just those few lines and Dad couldn't even look at you! Keep up that act, Mom. We’ve got this.!"
Mom sighed, lifted her phone, and checked her reflection. "True. I really am a stunning older woman."
When Dad came back, he set the new agreement gently in the dead center of the coffee table, as if that made it fairer.
Mom had rehearsed in front of me the day before, and now she was brimming with confidence.