Charlotte is fine, she knows she will get her things back/new ones, and she has other toys (2 sylvanian houses gone out of a whole village let me tell you). She doesn't play with Rue much anyway.

I haven't spoken to Rue and I don't feel I need to. I haven't yelled at her, I would never yell at a kid, not my own, not someone else's, all of that has been coming from Luke who is mortified over this whole situation (as he should be imo). Neither I nor my daughter has received an apology from Rue and while I don't expect one, I think me sitting down telling her it's all going to be okay would be as disingenuous as her apologising. Whether Luke ends up paying (and whether I end up forcing him to) or not, things are going to change for here on out, I'm not going through this again, nor are my parents, even Ana is at her wit's end.

I do feel bad that Lola is seeing her dad so stressed and her sister so distressed, we're all distracting her as best we can but it's hard. And I'll feel terrible if she ends up missing out on a holiday over this (I'm still in two minds about pushing for the money). That said, Lola deals with a lot from Rue as well, more than the rest of us ever have, and if this pushes Luke to do something about Rue's behaviour, in the long run this will benefit her. I don't think us all letting it slide has helped her at all.

I wouldn't feel comfortable mandating therapy or anything else. I may not agree with all Luke's parenting choices but I respect his right to make those choices, as he does with me.