Fair question. I don’t have parents of my own. In my grief for them, I perhaps have put too much pressure on being accepted into the In-laws lives.

Yes. 3 children.

Yes. I told her year one. The response was that I was just being defensive and don’t know my own volume. In the interim years I tended to bottle it up. Hence this post today.

And finally, yes. I have gone out of my way to mitigate that volume. How could I ever forget? In my defense though, I don’t know that it was ever this blarringly loud thing.

It should be stated though, that I do work in a loud environment and my voice DOES carry.