We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

Tiffany Madison
About This Quote

The word ‘intrusive’ means overbearing, annoying or persistent. The word ‘transcendental’ means extreme, extreme or above all other things. These two words perfectly describe the love that all of us have felt for our own children. From the moment they are born, we are obsessed with them.

We want to protect them from all the things that might hurt them. We want to teach them right from wrong and tell them how to live their lives. And, when they fall prey to their own mistakes, we are often the ones who feel the most betrayed.

The best way to deal with that is to accept their mistakes and then give them a second chance and a third and fourth and all the way down to their tenth chance at life. That’s what it means to be a parent: to love your child through every mistake he makes and then give him a chance at life despite those mistakes.

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