In the family I learn the complex choreography of love – what it means to give and take and share, to grow from obedience to responsibility, to learn, challenge, rebel, make mistakes, to forgive and be forgiven, to argue and make up, to win without triumph and know when graciously to lose. It’s where we acquire emotional intelligence, that delicate negotiation between the given and the chosen, the things I will and the things resistant to my will.
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks – English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher and author. (1948-2020), from “Learning to Love”, published in “Celebrating Life” (2006)