"They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life."

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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

— Carol Tavris