“If you’re told what you should be but not helped to become it, you don’t get there. And it makes you ashamed for failing to. When a person you depend on keeps telling you that it’s time to ‘move on,’ ‘to grow up,’ it makes you feel that who you are now is inadequate or uninteresting.”

“If you’re told what you should be but not helped to become it, you don’t get there. And it makes you ashamed for failing to. When a person you depend on keeps telling you that it’s time to ‘move on,’ ‘to grow up,’ it makes you feel that who you are now is inadequate or uninteresting.”

— Steven Levenkron