He liked that she didn’t hesitate to talk about his family. He was learning that it was a topic people were finding uncomfortable. Matt liked talking about them. He didn’t want them to vanish as if they’d never existed.
Exactly, after Dad died it’s like he was never here at all, Mum NEVER mentions him, heck if I didn’t think she was too straight laced, after all the books of read, a lot of them true crime, I’d wonder if she did something, in fact I did for about 0.005 of a second, but no, she’d never do it, just like she’ll never mention him. So sad, I hear the “we’re staying together because of the kids” thrown about, but let me point out that’s not a way to have a good life, for anyone involved.
