Families don’t fall apart because of politics, beliefs, or lifestyle choices. They fall apart because pride speaks louder than humility… and ego speaks louder than love. The Distance We Didn’t See is a deeply vulnerable reflection on family estrangement, late-in-life growth, and the quiet hope that grace can outlive the damage misunderstandings create. Drawing from decades of mistakes, broken marriages, emotional reactions, and the long, slow journey of healing, Keith Thorn writes not as a victim, but as a man who finally understands the distance his children felt—and the distance he never saw. This isn’t a book of blame or excuses. It’s a book of responsibility, tenderness, and hard-won clarity. Through personal reflection and universal truth, Thorn explores: how expectations fracture relationships how emotional timelines rarely match how conditional love hides beneath demands for acceptance how silence becomes self-protection and how late growth can still matter, even when no one is there to witness it Instead of pushing reconciliation, this book offers something deeper: love without pressure, grace without conditions, and the hope that kindness may one day become the bridge that words could not. For anyone carrying the ache of distance—children, parents, partners—this book is a reminder that love doesn’t always look like agreement, and healing doesn’t always look like reunion. Sometimes the most powerful love we give… is the love that waits without closing the door.