"As he bumped the car up the drive he deplored with sudden impatience the inescapable and impossible demands that his children make upon a man. It would have been more comfortable to have remained a bachelor and wallowed along in the agreeable state of self-deception that had been his before marriage. Fatherhood revealed one's inadequacies in an appalling manner..."
- The Heart of the Family, Elizabeth Goudge
Haha! So true. Motherhood too, though I think men suffer in this way more than women. Such a lot depends on a father being able to do so many things well.
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