Eric Zimmer

Like I was upset.

And so the me that came out is not the me that I want to be.

Here's who I want to be.

Here's my intention.

I fell short this time.

I'm going to keep trying to do better, you know, and that ability, even after we've become overwhelmed, right?

Because we're describing here a high level of emotional maturity and regulation where you always pause.

You're always able to stop doing the difficult thing.

And for many, many people, that's not the case.

But just even if that happens, there's still room for

for repair.

There's still room for reflection and there's still room to change our position to use your terminology.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, and there's no task that I have found in my life that more frequently pushed me up against my limits of what I was able to handle than being a parent, right?

I was like, this task just seems like it was designed to make me fail.

You know, I think good parents are able to go in and say, I made a mistake.

I didn't handle that right.

Because A, it repairs the relationship.