" Thinking about adults putting on a happy face for children, or worse, being unable to put on the happy face, is devastating. That we maintain this dishonesty with them, that we must. I have a longing to protect the kids from coming into some consciousness of the fact that taking care of them is difficult. I always imagined that keeping that fact from them was an essential part of good mothering. "
― Nina Renata Aron , Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love