For him, the law is
rarely about guilt or innocence - it's about negotiation and manipulation.
Not exact matches
There's
rarely mind chatter in the line of «diet culture» thinking, i.e. too much,
guilt about eating this or that, wanting a different body or trying to control the one I have, etc..
One of the best things
about getting older is that I'm
rarely motivated to do things out of
guilt anymore but I'll have to admit, I gave in last week to our old yellow transparent apple tree.
I felt so much
guilt about supplementing and formula - feeding my babies that I
rarely left the house, cancelled plans, and fed my babies in private to avoid questions, looks, comments, and that goddamn overwhelming
guilt.
I don't believe the emotions felt by mothers who don't breastfeed or who wean early are as simple as «
guilt»: when we really examine mothers» feelings
about things gone wrong, it is
rarely guilt that they are expressing, especially
about not breastfeeding or not breastfeeding as long or as completely as they would have liked to: well informed mothers who reach for the bottle after a struggle with breastfeeding know they have done the best they could with the resources they had at the time (health, energy, knowledge, support)-- these mothers may feel deeply sad and disappointed, they may be grieving, but
guilt isn't an appropriate label for these overwhelming feelings of loss for themselves and their babies.
(While it's a near antique, and clearly not an Energy Star model, it works great and is deployed so
rarely that I have no
guilt about using it.)