Sometimes You Win By Losing
4/6/04 12:52 PM
I am developing an unusual feeling for me, and that is Trust.
I never felt trust before. When I married Jean it was about controlling her. And when P.B. came along it was about controlling and possessing him.
Lately, though, I'm beginning to trust them and their judgment as to how they need to live their own lives. And it doesn't mean that I was wrong and they are right. It just might mean that sometimes compromise CAN work out for everybody. And, surprisingly, I am viewing my son for the first time as a person, not a possession or a pawn.
He called me at the office today and said he didn't really care about moving out of the big apartment as long as the new place he and his mother moved to was near enough to a movie theatre so that he and I could walk there on Sundays. And if that didn't work out, he'd let Ricardo drive us. It didn't matter to him as long as we were together.
And I thought I was the one who did the manipulating here.
Virtually yours,
Patrick Bateman
I am developing an unusual feeling for me, and that is Trust.
I never felt trust before. When I married Jean it was about controlling her. And when P.B. came along it was about controlling and possessing him.
Lately, though, I'm beginning to trust them and their judgment as to how they need to live their own lives. And it doesn't mean that I was wrong and they are right. It just might mean that sometimes compromise CAN work out for everybody. And, surprisingly, I am viewing my son for the first time as a person, not a possession or a pawn.
He called me at the office today and said he didn't really care about moving out of the big apartment as long as the new place he and his mother moved to was near enough to a movie theatre so that he and I could walk there on Sundays. And if that didn't work out, he'd let Ricardo drive us. It didn't matter to him as long as we were together.
And I thought I was the one who did the manipulating here.
Virtually yours,
Patrick Bateman