After the Reiner Trial: Peace Without Answers

Jake and Romy Reiner are going to spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Testimony. Motions. Their brother's face across the room while lawyers argue about what happened in that bedroom.

And at the end of it — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead.

The trial will give them an outcome. It won't give them peace. That's the trap of waiting for external resolution. You make your healing contingent on something you can't control. And while you wait, your life stays frozen.

Justice doesn't equal peace. Families of murder victims describe this — years of anticipation, the belief that "guilty" will shift something inside them. Then the verdict arrives. And they feel nothing. Because the court addressed what the defendant did. It didn't undo what it cost.

Apologies don't rewrite history. Even if Nick ever explained himself, even if the words were everything they've imagined — the damage remains. Their parents are gone. Their family is destroyed. Understanding why won't rebuild what was lost.

Time doesn't heal. It just passes. Healing isn't passive. It's something you build. Actively. Painfully. Day by day. With or without the ending you deserved.

The shift that separates people who stay stuck from people who move forward: closure isn't something that arrives. It's something you construct. Peace isn't waiting for external validation. It's deciding — actively, repeatedly — that their chaos doesn't get to write your future anymore.

At some point, Jake and Romy will have to answer a question they could answer today: what now? What kind of life do they build? How do they move through a world where their parents are gone and their brother is something unrecognizable?

The answer — the only one that works — is they decide to build anyway. Not because the trial gives closure. Because waiting was its own kind of dying.

The survivors who make it aren't the ones who got answers. They're the ones who stopped needing them.

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