Breaking the Fifth

A reading of this week’s essay, and a talk about those relationships that devastate your heart because you’re in love with someone who leaves you no choice but to end things. When you look back you realize you were being tested from the start - you were being asked to tolerate things you never should have - and in the end the only choice was the pain that poisons you, or the pain that sets you free. And how that all ties into what’s happening in our country right now, the Fifth Amendment, due process, motherhood, and how a place can call younger versions of you to the surface, so you find yourself joined in the drivers’ seat by a twenty-something you, with your daughter in the passenger seat.