When you’re texting a dude and he seems into the convo, initiating, asking questions, but takes like 25 minutes to respond to you each time and you’re like WTF DOES THIS MEAN WHAT ARE THESE GAMES?
They’re video games. He’s texting you in between rounds of video games.
I love my child more than anything. I would lay down my life for him. But I would not give him the best bite. The next bite? Sure. As many bites as he wants in fact. But the BEST bite? That’s mine.
Respectful parenting is wild bc on one hand, my kids will learn empathy bc they’re being *taught* empathy, and not bc it’s their responsibility to emotionally regulate their mother, but on the flip, they won’t have enough trauma to make them funny, so I’m not sure it’s worth it.
If only there was a moderate-coded, extremely good communicator who is both good on Fox News and has a backstory that could mobilise liberals, who could be parachuted in at the convention.