 What is the relationship like between Ed and Sheryl?
An elderly couple ride a tandem bicycle through a park, laughing and smiling in Instagram-perfect sunshine, as a calm, relaxing voice lists the potentially lethal side effects of a diabetes drug. "Sheryl-" "No. I don't want to hear you two as much as disagreeing about anything today, unless it's about the game. Up until then it just seemed like constant warmth, as though she didn't have any childhood concept of Dad apart from him getting home from work, then her sitting on his knee, eating cookies and watching football highlights until Mom came in and scolded them both for ruining their appetites before dinner. It was constant warfare; every opinion she had became a battle, every decision she made a conflict. And then politics got all crazy, weirder then ever, and it became impossible for them to talk without it erupting into fights almost instantly. Since her second year of school he'd never been to NYC to visit her. Dad is in the bathroom, and Sara has had enough of Fox and whichever war this is. In her pocket her phone vibrates, purrs against her skin, reminding her it's there, making sure she's not forgotten where her real friends are, that there's a world outside, beyond Dad and his TV. Sara works for a non-profit in Brooklyn that helps big organisations to transition to renewable energy.
 Their relationship is tense as Ed will not get help when he needs it, but it is mostly cordial
 Their relationship is tense as Ed will not get help when he needs it, but it is mostly cordial  They are fairly indifferent towards each other but interact more when there are other people around  They have a good relationship but do not like to watch the same TV, as Sheryl hates football  They are very tense and the only thing that brings them together is their daughter