The Power of Honoring Your Mom's Feelings

In the last months of my mom's life, she was convinced her ex-husband was stealing from her. I could feel inside me this helplessness and impatience at times. So what I'd do is I'd honor her feelings. I wouldn't be judging her, but I wasn't pretending I shared her reality. And over the months, her disturbance got soothed just by the quality of us being together.