Sweetie,

It is not that I haven't seen your side, but rather that I disagree with it. I do not feel any of the disagreements between us have been of any fault of my own. I have done my best to keep our family together, but you have insisted on interfering, throwing fits, and acting out the moment you are faced with words or decisions you do not agree with.

I am not our father, but I now possess the same power in the household that he had. You seem to equate "keeping you in line" with "acting like your father", and if that's how you wish to see things, than I am acting like our father. Someone must keep order in the house, Sweetie, and there is no one else left to do so but myself.

If you measure my love for you by my willingness to let you roam like a wild tiger, then you might be right when you say I have no love for you at all.

Sincerely,