I had built a company from nothing.

I had made a thousand hard decisions and been right about most of them.

And somewhere in there I had come to believe that my judgment was not to be questioned — that a man who had accomplished what I had accomplished had earned the right to be trusted, and that to question my choices was to insult my whole life’s competence.

So when my daughter questioned Vivienne, I did not hear a person who loved me offering me information.