The first recommendation Aaron suggests to be done when handling the responsibilities of a parent is to let the parent know you will not distance yourself from them as a person but you shall distance yourself emotionally from the suffering and pain, it is a form of balancing the two realities. In this section I learned about Aaron’s mother’s life and how she ended up living with him. With due time patience was the key to this journey in caring for his mother. His mother had been living in Miami working as a sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue in Bal Harbor Mall and had injured her right leg leading her to quit and retire. She then moved to Chicago to live with her sister, whom was a widow but it wasn’t long before they realized their personalities was no match for one another and her sister ended up dismissing her from her own home six weeks later. Devastated she called Aarons wife to explain what had happened between her and her sister and with the heart of gold his wife had she took her in and Aaron was not going to have an opinion on that decision for he did not want to be blamed for the burden it may implement on their family for the following sixteen years to follow. As the years went by financially her two other sons always sent monthly checks to help with living costs of their mother, always kept in touch and always attempted to make trips to visit her whenever they could due to the fact that they lived in very distant states. As a result they benefitted from the fact that she gained a special place in her heart for Aaron’s children and was a caregiver for them as they grew up. His children grew very close to her and they became her favorite grandchildren, which in Aarons eyes was the best gift he could have given his children despite thinking otherwise years before.
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