
When Love Defines Family: My Daughter’s Unfair Exclusion
A family birthday party should be joyful—but for my daughter, it became a moment of heartbreak. When my mother-in-law decided Lila didn’t belong because she “wasn’t blood,” I finally found my voice. I met Cassian as a single mom to two-year-old Lila. Our first date included her because I needed to know if he’d accept…