that sounds great! aly and her parents were strained for a long time after she ran to new york, and away from all their expectations. she had a daughter five years ago and was in a miserable marriage, which is when they began the process of reconciling. she finally got to express how detrimental their expectations were and it was a whole thing. but they've started to repair, it's still, and may always be a work in progress but things are infinitely better for her. aly also had a lot of habits she had to unlearn as to not pass them down to her own daughter. but yes, absolutely she still carries a lot of weight from those years when things were fraught and would be able to 100% understand all of his venting and frustrations and the like.