15 Myths About Sweet People
We even want to mother our friends
I certainly don’t want to mother my friends. I don’t want to pick up after them. I don’t want to clean their literal or figurative messes. Or hold their hands through tasks that, as adults, they should handle on their own. I won’t do that for friends or for romantic partners. I need the people in my life to behave as adults, even if I seem like I’d be great with kids.