>>717100050"Love? Consent? Please. Those are luxuries for the weak-hearted. If you want loyalty—real, inescapable loyalty—you forge it. You don’t ask for commitment—you engineer it. A child, oh yes, a child is the most binding contract one can conceive… quite literally.
He can leave the house, the bed, even the country—but he can’t leave me. Not with a piece of him crying in my arms every night. You see, men wander, but fathers? Fathers owe. In time, his sense of duty will outweigh his resentment. Or at the very least, the courts will remind him of it.
Some say it’s manipulation. I say it’s strategy. After all, he wanted me once—he just didn’t know he’d want me forever. And if the rules of love don't favor me, I make my own rules. Isn't that what true power is?"