My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”
“The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.”