One week before Christmas, I accidentally heard my parents discussing using my money to throw a perfect Christmas party without me. I stayed silent and prepared another party at my two-million-dollar seaside villa. On Christmas night, my phone screen lit up with 110 missed calls. It was a Tuesday evening in California when I stopped by my parents’ house in the hills outside Los Angeles, still in my blazer from a client meeting, just planning to drop off an early Christmas gift and drive back dow