“Anytime my child asks me to play, I will say yes. I make it a firm rule for one reason, to give myself permission to free me from all of my workaholic guilt. It's a law, so I don't have a choice.”

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made a firm rule to say yes to every request from her children to play, treating it as a law to free herself from workaholic guilt

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