My 16-year-old daughter was terrified when my father-in-law threw her out at midnight and gave her room to her cousin.

Emma folded the letter and placed it in a drawer.

She did not forgive him that day.

No one asked her to.

That was one of the first decisions Daniel and Rachel made together. Emma would not be pushed into healing on anyone else’s timeline. She began therapy in January. She changed her phone wallpaper to a photo of the three continue reading …