“Interdependence is no longer our choice… It is our condition. We will either build healthy interdependencies and rise together or suffer through unhealthy interdependencies and fall together.”
(Dov Seidman, quoted here)
Picture a man who engenders a lovely daughter. In the fullness of time he is party to the bestowing of this daughter upon a deserving partner with her full consent.
The rhetoric of the ceremony lets the daughter’s partner think she is subservient. When he’s cold he nestles against her. When he’s horny he copulates with her. When he’s hungry he demands meals from her. When not mothering children she dances for his entertainment.
The father sees his daughter reduced to a shadow of herself. He confronts the partner to whom he entrusted her and says:
You didn’t read the covenant carefully. Heed this wisdom: A good man returns the tool sharper than when he borrowed it. You received into your care this being unique in the entire universe so far as you know. Your welfare was contingent upon your putting yourself in her service, exalting and nurturing her in exchange for her support. Instead you’ve wasted and abused her. I’m afraid you’ve made your Hell. Now lie in it, fool.
THE BALLAD OF ANGUS BURDOO
Gather round me, children, let me tattle you a tale
‘Bout the grandest gob of guff you’ll ever see.
Buy twenty of the suckers, get the second one for free,
And we’ll gambol ’til we’re silly in the dale.
Listen up, my brothers, let me say it loud and clear:
Rosin up the bow and lick a toad.
There’s stories I could tell you as would make your ears explode,
And we’ll perish all together, never fear.
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EthicalDative 
Wise words Jim.
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Thank you, Sue!
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