MY RECENTLY WIDOWED FATHER IS MOVING IN WITH HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND

Am I Allowed To Be Upset About It?

Last Thursday I joined a Zoom meeting with my book editor and publicity team teary-eyed. I had just been told that my dad and his girlfriend of ten weeks had decided to co-purchase a new apartment. They had already found a place and were going to sell their respective NYC apartments so they could officially live together and split their time between the city and my family home in Westchester, NY. I shouldn’t have been surprised by the news. They had become inseparable since they met in January, and my dad acts fast when he gets an idea in his head. But it still hit me hard, and I started off what was supposed to be a meeting about the launch of my upcoming novel by blurting out my emotional distress. I felt lucky that if I had to have a professional Zoom that morning, it was one where I could get away with openly crying.