#KillTheDean - Family Life

He was down, that he had to talk to the boys in such a manner. He'd always wanted to be a better father & father-figure, than that, but that's what it'd come to...

A basic lack of unity, due to a clash of values, leading to a conflict of wills, as a mother tried desperately, as she lost, last control, of everything else, grasping, cast-iron, to that only thing that'll ever matter to her. This, as the "not-quite" Father went down, unsupported, for yet another time as he scrabbled to maintain the last gasp, of anything he might do with the rest of his, ever-waning, and only-bubbling corner of his life.

They both, had to be entitled, to all of this...