Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.