My Sister Broke My Son’s Sailboat in My Malibu Cottage—Then She Saw the Realtor Outside
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Chapter 7 / 15
Chapter 7 - My Parents Thought the Cottage Was Part of the Family Safety Net
Mom and Dad used it too.
Always with permission initially.
Then permission became:
assumed.
My father once texted:
Mom and I are taking Malibu Thursday–Sunday.
Not:
Can we?
I answered:
Okay.
There.
I trained them too.
When cousins visited California, Mom said:
“Stay at Daryl’s beach place.”
Sometimes she asked afterward.
I hated it.
Then still allowed:
the stay.
Why?
Because saying no made me feel:
petty.
I had more money.
A successful company.
A beach house.
What exactly was I protecting?
That was how I framed it.
But ownership boundaries are not only for:
scarcity.
You do not have to need something desperately before you are allowed to decide who uses it.
May you like
I had not learned that yet.
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