Gemotions

The weight in her chest was crushing. Susan's son, David, had just informed her of his conversion to the Unification Church. She felt a pervasive sense of disquiet, a feeling of being… wrong-footed.

She tried to concentrate on the mundane tasks of her day, but everything felt impossible. She stared at the bills on the kitchen table, unable to bring herself to open them. She found herself snapping at her dog, a gentle creature who usually calmed her.

She felt a desperate need to escape, to run away from this new reality. She knew that there would be others who had come to the same difficult crossroads, but they were far away. The thought of explaining this to her closest friends caused a fresh wave of panic to rise within her.