Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.

Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2010) - ISBN: 9781439134863