My Wife Told Our Daughter to Say She’d Just Gone for Groceries — The Second Phone in the Drawer Told the Real Story
The promise is more precise than that.
It is the promise that she will never again face something too big for her, alone.
That the weight will always be sized to what she can carry, or else carried with her.
That when she reaches the edge of her own strength — and children do reach it, that is part of growing — there will be a larger, stronger presence right there, so that the edge of her strength is never the edge of the cliff.
Wendy had left our daughter alone at the edge of her strength for four hours, with nothing beyond it but a fall.