is all about investment of yourself...
How much are you willing to invest of yourself in a relationship - any relationship.
For,
What you get in return is in direct proportion to what you invest.
Agreed a relationship has two people in it. If one does all the investing, the relationship is never going to hold. Both have to invest - both have to want to invest.
No relationship can ever be taken for granted - least of all the one with your children. So you have a relationship with friends, with a spouse, with an organization, with an employer, with employees, with the neighborhood shop, with the vegetable vendor, with your country....... .And each of these needs an investment.
So first of all are you willing to invest?
and next,
how much are you willing to invest?
You even have a relationship with yourself. Which therefore means that you have to invest in yourself too. And what you invest in yourself, is what forms the corpus of what you are going to invest in others. And, better still, what you invest in others comes back to you as interest on investment and thus strengthening you... .The catch is that if you invest in yourself, either to the exclusion of investing in others, or don't invest enough in others, then what comes back is also a mean quantity.....
This whole process of investing can be joyful and very, very rewarding!!