For the fifth time they ‘forgot’ to invite me to Christmas, so I bought a house in the mountains just for myself. A week later, they showed up at my door with a spare key in hand… No one expected that I had already prepared: a police officer, a security camera system, and a lawyer. The fifth “forgetting” arrived on December 1st, delivered by a child’s honesty on FaceTime and smoothed over by a daughter-in-law’s PR smile. That was the moment I realized silence had turned me into furniture in my o