When my daughter’s longtime boyfriend texted to ask if he could talk to me privately following an upcoming family event, two thoughts immediately came to mind. My daughter has cancer. Or he’s breaking up with her and will need my help to ease her through it.
I stared at the phone. How could I wait to find out which problem we’re facing? But I took a moment and played it cool. I didn’t want to let him know where my mind went. “Should I be worried?” I finally texted back. “Oh, no,” he wrote. He wanted to talk to me about his future with my daughter. It was a marriage proposal, I realized, and replied that of course I would be delighted to speak with him alone.
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