Chapter 21 - The family boundary We stopped contact between Cordelia and Bram for four months.
No court order.
Our decision.
She complained.
Then threatened to speak to an attorney about grandparent rights.
Her attorney apparently explained that such cases are fact-specific, parental decisions receive significant weight, and threatening litigation after physically overriding a child’s wheelchair at a wedding might not create the story she imagined.
She never filed.
Good.
We did not want a courtroom.
We wanted a boundary.
No unsupervised contact.
No discipline authority.
No moving Bram’s wheelchair without asking unless immediate safety required it.
No photographing him separately because of the chair unless he requested it.
No comments describing his mobility equipment as ruining, blocking, distracting, or compromising family appearance.
Cordelia called the rules humiliating.
Alaric said:
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“Then imagine being six.”
She stopped using that word.
