'My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the toilet and shut off the lights...

It's not the agonizing choices that cause our undoing-it's the choices we never see coming. Eliot Gordon is a 38-year-old working mom living an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and thei...