If you want to have a relationship at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter and we share everything and talk about everything.
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go wants to feel like it's not all for naught and it's meaningful because it makes you who you are.