All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.