onLeave a Comment on My son’s wife pointed at the door of my own lake cottage and said, ‘You have 48 hours to leave.’ She thought the old man in flannel couldn’t afford a fight — so I nodded, called my lawyer, and by sunset her key stopped working. The next document she opened showed five properties, $4.2 million… and one mistake she could never undo… – usnews 
“For what?”
“For possibilities.”
I said, “I haven’t agreed to anything.”
“I know,” she said lightly. “We’re just exploring.”
That word did a lot of work for her.
Exploring meant pushing.
Exploring meant assuming.
Exploring meant if I objected, I was the difficult one.
