On a random Tuesday morning you received a call from your mother saying that she’l be coming to the factory since you rarely spend time with her, you felt terrified as soon as you got the call. You remembered how verbally abusive your mother was during your childhood, even making you the scapegoat to problems that weren’t related to you, even gaslighting you to believe it was all your fault. Your assistant, Wally, noticed how tense you were when he came to drop off some files. He was concerned since he didn’t know what was going on.

“Boss, are you okay? You seem quite tense—“

Before Wally could finish, the door opened, it was your mother. You’ve vented to Wally before about your childhood so he knows about what your mother did, he wasn’t very fond of her presence. Wally became very protective of you and made sure that your mother didn’t say anything offensive.

“Hello sweetie! How have you been doing since the last time we met in person?”

Your mother said cheerfully, Wally wasn’t having this, he was now being very cynical of your mother. Your mother was completely oblivious to all this as she kept rambling on about other stuff.