Sitting on her bed Sally began, “Jordie I’m sorry you had to find out about what’s happening that way. It’s what your Dad wanted to do though. I don’t want to drag you into the middle of this – it isn’t about you – it isn’t your fault and you didn’t cause any of it. I don’t’ want you to carry around the weight of this on your shoulders. Okay?”
“K.” Jordan pushed out through clenched teeth.
“Your Dad is gonna move out for a week or two to figure some things out and he’ll be back lickity split—”
“But he’s just been gone for 5 weeks,” Jordan interrupted, “couldn’t he have figured out what he needs to figure out while he was gone?”