The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters (The Asylum Confession Files, #2)

by Jack Steen

I could have done better. I should have done better. I loved my wife, but I lost myself in grief, not realizing she was just as lost as I was.

The same could be said about children. While they remain young, it’s easy to lead them, direct them, and teach them, but eventually, children get to a point where they want to lead themselves, go in their own directions, and seek out guidance from others than the one who raised them.

Just because a child decides they want to be treated as an adult doesn’t mean they are ready for adulthood.

wolf knows how to protect his own, and it doesn’t matter who gets in the way.

Girls are fanciful creatures. The thoughts and feelings they experience daily would be exhausting for us men.

Eating human-fed pig meat can harm a person in many ways. Prion diseases can be manifested with symptoms of hallucinations, dementia, difficulty walking with muscle soreness, and confusion, among the few.

“Oh, honey, by the time you reach my age, all you’ll have done is say goodbye. Practice doesn’t make perfect. It never gets easy. You just learn to handle your grief better.”

No one talked about what it was like for me to lose a child as I had, not being able to say goodbye. No one thought of what that does to a woman, to a mother.

If you live with regrets, then you’re not truly living. You’re reacting in order to not live with more regrets.