You know, H's reaction doesn't surprise me...I know I have had a similar reaction to things I've done wrong in the past when W confronted me...minimizing? check. Apology? Explanation? Heck no! (This is the old T^2 M.O., not the new) Idk, maybe this is standard issue guy reaction when busted, don't want to admit wrong to Mom...again, idk. Reminds me though of W complaining after the PA had to be disclosed that she "can never get away with anything....", maybe same teenager thinking here??? All I said to her was that maybe we are supposed to get away with anything, we couldn't grow if we did.
You did well to not deepen the shame, to not push how you were right...guys hate that usually, maybe everyone does.
We LBS have to give a lot of benefit of the doubt, to be sure. But we have to give them that faith so they can learn to chose properly, if we don't, they can't.
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
