kvetching up

Just prior to tandem therapy, Leiney had gone to see Jenny and asked me to leave the room. I was leaving the room, but within earshot, when Leiney started. She told Jenny how sad she was about her mom's behavior and her failure to prioritize her children. She talked about the condoms that I found in Jenny's bag, and how disappointed she was in her mom. Jenny was shocked. I left the room, so I don't know all of what she said. As I retreated to the basement to talk to Abby--forgetting she was not home but at acting--I heard Jenny tell Leiney she had had picked up the condoms at a store as a joke. She grabbed them thinking it was funny that the store was giving out free condoms. Who knows? (Given her penchant for lying and cheating, I have an idea I know.) When tandem therapy began, for the first 30 minutes it was uneventful, the standard drill really.  At minute 31 I raised the issue of the condoms. I was calm. I was collected. I told the story of how I had found them, and t...