"You'd throw twenty years of friendship away over me telling the truth?"
"Becca would not need to understand everything about our grown-up problems. Her therapist explained that some matters are no longer supposed to be shared with teenagers till you have run out of options, and it's no longer true, so there are a lot of options."
"Why did you tell Dixie at all? Even when you believed it was once true, why inform her?" Peter asked.
"I have a proper to discuss to my friends."
"Not when it impacts Becca and me to this degree. You're the mom, the grown-up. That capability that you suck it up and deal instead of messing up our lives because you can not deal."
"How dare you discuss to me like that."
"If you don't choose me to discuss to you like that, then act
better, do better." He was
