Daughter Chose Her, I Chose Me9.3

After six years fighting for custody, Nora hears her daughter Mia choose her former husband’s lover as her mother in court. Nora gives up her parental rights rather than continue the contest. A later attempt to manipulate her with a fake injury ends her remaining willingness to engage.

She cuts contact and returns to Maine to reunite with her own mother. The former household begins fighting over its future without her. Nora concentrates on rebuilding the life she can control instead of returning to a family that repeatedly rejected her.