Reconciliation
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Re: Reconciliation
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I think you may have a valid point there. Maybe the pain of missing a daughter in addition to that sympathy fo Maureen may have eased the path for reconciliation. Sometimes it is time that helps heal old wounds too.shreyagupta wrote: ↑18 Sep 2020, 11:25True. I think that the fact Maureen lost her husband and was left alone with raising Kalayla, deepened her family's sympathy for her. Maybe it was this sympathy that made them consider reconnecting with Maureen when her father accidently met Kalayla.Laurina_Olowo wrote: ↑02 Sep 2020, 08:50 I don't think so. If he were alive, I think her parents would still be hiding into thier resentments.
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Precisely.Joseph_ngaruiya wrote: ↑11 Sep 2020, 00:22Indeed, his role as a father was shared with Maureen. But again, I wouldn't say that he's to blame for all the trouble that Kalayla goes through trying to find herself. From the beginning even when Maureen was with Kalayla at home, she was always hooked to painting or other errands. Kalayla says she wasn't bothered whether they ate late or the same meal for days. This shows that both Jamal and Maureen failed to create enough time and consideration into their daughter's welfare and self awareness.Bertha Jackson wrote: ↑09 Sep 2020, 20:44 I don't think reconciliation would have been any different if Jamal had lived because he was leaving it up to Maureen. I don't think he would have initiated anything on his own.
And the fact that they didn't spend enough time with Kalayla to create a much stronger bond that would have made it easier to talk to her whenever, is probably why Jamal couldn't talk to her about forgiveness. He was probably scared and unable to initiate the conversation . This is what happens when parents do not spend enough quality time with their children .
When they make mistakes(which anyone will), it becomes harder to reconcile, because there was nary an open type of bond there in the first place.
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No, I don't think the reconciliation would have come soon had Jamal lived. It was obvious that he was upset about Maureen keeping her family a secret from Kalayla, yet he didn't really press her on it. And I don't remember reading about him encouraging Maureen to reconnect with her family. In fact, I think his death actually contributed to the reconciliation happening when it did.
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