“Now surely you're not saying I'm responsible for your father's failings, are you?”asked her mother, smiling weakly.
“I'm saying you gave up your own desirability, to give it to me!At tremendous cost to you!But that wasn't all, either, was it?”
“Sonya, you really shouldn't get yourself worked up this way. It can't be good for you.”
“And then,”Sonya continued, ignoring the older woman,“when I needed that extra energy to do all the work I had to do in my first executive position, suddenly I had the energy I needed, and you could barely drag yourself out of bed in the morning!”