I learned a lot more from my daughter than she ever learned from me. Occasionally she would ask me to do something which she knew I would find difficult or objectionable, and I used to complain that it was unfair of her to do that.
She always said that there was nothing unfair about it as long as she was fully prepared to accept ‘no’ for an answer. And that was when I realised that it wasn’t her unfairness I was railing against, but my own fear of being too weak to refuse.
When she asks me to do something difficult or objectionable now, I just say ‘no.’
Ha!
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