The above story was written June, 2007. We are still doing fine. No longer on tenderhooks with each other. My son the juvenile delinquent has reinvented himself as my son the entrepreneur. We have had no episodes of OM or OW intruding back into our lives. They disappeared like magic once we stopped carrying them in our hearts. Such a bad habit that romantic nostalgia is! The family that was dysfunctional for years now looks like the family that's got it all together. I'm not saying we don't have our moments. But we are all more charitable to each other than we were before. When one person is frustrated or angry, the other steps in to help, not to argue.
