Aquarius

The hardest part about having a parent who is not around is that everyone else gets to have opinions about what you should do with the empty space they left. Your relatives have theories about forgiveness, your close people have theories about closure, and meanwhile you are the one who has to live inside the actual shape of their absence every day. What gets lost in all this advice is that you already know what feels right and what feels like performance. The choice you make about this parent is not about them anymore, and it does not have to satisfy anyone else's idea of the right way to handle complicated love.