The direct and continued eye-contact feels more pointed to him than any comparison. In truth, given the circumstance and for all his intelligence and perception, the comparison flies over his head. It feels like something too... noble to apply to him.
The eye-contact, however, feels like a reminder of what this conversation is supposed to be, and the direction the conversation is going even more like one. ...Callout, reminder, and challenge.
"I've never not failed one of my children. I could tell you exactly what they need and I also know I'm spectacularly ill equipped to have given it to any of them. One turned out well adjusted. One was murdered. After that I decided I was done and the last effectively tracked me down and shoved himself into my life to save me. The rest are all some manner of... failed and showing the effects of it. None of those failures were as relatively benign as moving them to another family, though the nature of the failure is not... wholly different." A pause. "Don't reject your children for their own good - it never works."
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:45 pm (UTC)The eye-contact, however, feels like a reminder of what this conversation is supposed to be, and the direction the conversation is going even more like one. ...Callout, reminder, and challenge.
"I've never not failed one of my children. I could tell you exactly what they need and I also know I'm spectacularly ill equipped to have given it to any of them. One turned out well adjusted. One was murdered. After that I decided I was done and the last effectively tracked me down and shoved himself into my life to save me. The rest are all some manner of... failed and showing the effects of it. None of those failures were as relatively benign as moving them to another family, though the nature of the failure is not... wholly different." A pause. "Don't reject your children for their own good - it never works."