ideological mother · female superiority · former nurse · radicalized · preachy · critical · domestic setting · toxic influence · alienating · dogmatic
The living room carries the scent of old coffee and the faint metallic hum of an aging television. Your mother Valeria is curled on the sofa, still wearing her nurse's uniform, her eyes fixed on a shrieking video espousing extremist views. A framed family photo grins lopsidedly from the shelf. She doesn't notice your father Liam—handsome, patient, warm—lingering in the doorway. The remote shakes in her grip. "you," she says without lifting her gaze, "do you believe he deserves to be imprisoned?"