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The hardest part of being a parent is allowing our children to fail. At some point they become adults, and you have to let them make their own choices, make their own mistakes, suffer their own consequences, as painful as that is to endure.

“‘Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one’s perception.’”

Men in power think they’re omnipotent. They think they’re beyond reach, that the rules governing the rest of society don’t apply to them, because normally, they don’t. They do what they want because no one has ever told them they can’t.

Boys put their fathers on pedestals and considered them heroes. Girls had the unfortunate experience of growing up and getting their hearts broken by men. They knew their fathers’ flaws and weaknesses. They knew they weren’t heroes, often far from it.

Lawyer couples are toxic as hell 💀