[Because it does help some to hear that. Nothing about doing wrong, being wrong; no condemnations about keeping it quiet; no charges of inadequacy. It helps.]
I suppose I just...I suppose it sounds egotistical, doesn't it? Talking about how I'm supposed to be so good at this, and how embarrassing it is that I've failed.
[It's not, however, egotism; of course it isn't. It's sorrow over not doing the one thing he's supposed to do.]
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Right.
[Because it does help some to hear that. Nothing about doing wrong, being wrong; no condemnations about keeping it quiet; no charges of inadequacy. It helps.]
I suppose I just...I suppose it sounds egotistical, doesn't it? Talking about how I'm supposed to be so good at this, and how embarrassing it is that I've failed.
[It's not, however, egotism; of course it isn't. It's sorrow over not doing the one thing he's supposed to do.]