Our mothers gave us their best. They taught us to be kind, to work hard, and maybe to “never go to bed angry.” But here is a hard truth: their relationship advice was based on a different world. In fact, it was a world where a “good man” was often just a “good provider.” Therefore, they could not teach us what they did not know. The modern world, consequently, requires a new set of emotional tools. These are the critical love lessons we had to learn for ourselves, the hard way.
