Clearing the air

Sunday dinner with my in-laws and the discussion about the difficulties we’d been having recently went fairly well overall. I finally told them how hurt I had felt over their lack of communication in the first few days after my dad died and that, combined with a couple of smaller incidences which had followed had caused me to push them away. They, of course, had had no idea why I’d suddenly become so unresponsive. It made me realise that a lot of hurt and anger could have been avoided if I’d just talked about my feelings in the first place.