Through his experiences, Merrill had taken responsibility for his situation and no longer blamed Harriet and her husband: He told us that the problems that were happening were not caused by others. He understood that we weren’t being mean, or mad, or bad by not being willing to give him everything he wanted when we didn’t think that it was right. He said he did a lot of crying in therapy about this anger at himself. He has a job now and a better set of friends. So we came back in and helped him build a reasonable life. Our relationship has reopened.
