But this letter does give pointers into why he became the kind of person he was. I can not imagine my mother writing a letter like this to me and I can not imagine writing one like this to my kids. Do I love them? Totally. Enough to let them pay for their mistakes.
We have somehow confused the idea of "love" with "anything you do I will support" when we are not confusing it with sex.
*** Enough to let them pay for their mistakes.***
Yes! That’s what we did with ours, just as our parents did with us.
I even remember the days of “tough love”. There have to be consequences for making poor choices.