Her statement didn’t sound right when she said, “I didn’t marry him because I liked him! I married him because I knew I could fix him! It was my duty to the world to improve him; make the universe a better place.”
There’s a lot that could be written about these statements. Like the denudation of the accumulated forces of nature: wind, rain, rivers, and sun.  She applied all her manipulative skills but she did not wear him down or reform him; or attempt to fix herself. Over time I’ve lived with this experienced memory and I’ve come to believe we’re accountable to fix ourselves ONLY. Even in a child/parent relationship we only, “Train up a child in the way he should go.” We only have power to fix ourselves, which in my case seems to be a full-time job.
We see this frustrating expenditure of energy, to FIX SOMEONE ELSE, most in families. As my main goal in writing is to examine and encourage family life I wrote many stories about Paul and Anna. In the book ‘Dragon’s Tale’ he feels called upon to lead his family, by ordering food at the restaurant. Then, under his TUTELAGE, and recognizing in women a refined zeitgeist, penchant, and proclivity to try to fix others, he calls upon his Mother to RETRAIN ANNA, his sister.
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