“Mark Darcy is an emotional withholder to a degree which verges on the sadistic.”
“Hansel and Gretel enact their hostility toward a symbolic mother, who, because she is a child's provider, is also, in a neat Freudian flip, the withholder of nourishment.”
“Robin Lyde is a professional withholder of judgment — it's what she does for a living, and it's how she helps parents who have been accused of neglect or abuse.”