If your son declares “I sometimes felt like you loved the dog more than me”

@Elevatorpitches No, the truth is, the dog always got out of its basket to greet me at the door first and didn’t understand the queuing protocol. That’s my sort of defence anyway. My bad, perhaps.

@MrPoppins looks like the dog just loved you all.

@Elevatorpitches Glad you liked that ;=)

@Elevatorpitches Dogs are mans greatest loyal friend. Tis true. She’s getting old now though, 16, that’s heralding tissue time for a JR. Still, she is still having a good loving and loved life. And, she [i]still[/i] gets to the door first 😉

@MrPoppins Remember the "Nixon" movie Oliver Stone's? Nixon told his mother as a kid Just think of me as your faithful dog. My point is he would have come to u first too. (I'm sorry my head is into the sad dirty melodrama of american politics today so hard to escape it!!) Be well and remember the love🥰

@Elevatorpitches
I do, I do. But it made I cry, and he cried too. We cried together. It was a true cri de coeur. An eternal bonding moment. I think I’m forgiven. Especially when I paid his tuition fees instead of buying a new Gibson guitar...

@Elevatorpitches You are a good man to be loved that way. Your son will understand someday. Maybe he does now.

You couldn't imagine the heartbreak I caused my parents and they were still...gentle.

@Elevatorpitches Parents are, well, some are very understanding and forgiving. They knew there was no ‘men’s rea’ in whatever you might have done. Take care.

@MrPoppins They were better people than I

@Elevatorpitches if my senses are serving me well, I hear self admonishing, perhaps reflecting on negative things you did in your formative years. I could say, don’t whip yourself. But I don’t know the context (and neither is it my business), but, it would seem based on at least the few details you have shared, that your parents were ‘good’ people. I assume they have now sadly passed. Such good people would not , I think, ever want you to harbour on such things past. They would want you to go forward and maybe replicate their good values, perhaps in their honour. A thought, perhaps.