All parents damage their children. IT cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others c… - Mitch Albom

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't.
You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.Sounds like a wrestling match, I say.
A wrestling match. He laughs. Yes, you could describe life that way.
So which side wins, I ask?
Which side wins? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
Love wins. Love always wins.

"There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?"
Yes?
"Your belief in the importance of your marriage."