Riding in Cars with Boys

I watched this movie again a couple days ago. I love Drew Barrymore in it. It's such a great story. I caught the movie on tv in the middle of the story where Drew opens up about her feelings toward her son and how she feels like a bad mother. She says she wonders whether she really does love him and whether she has to love him and she feels like a horrible person for feeling that way (she was a teen mom, give the woman a break).

I love what Brittany Murphy says in response to this. It stopped me silent when she said it. She says "I think sometimes we love people so much, we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we loved them, it would kill us." It's a line that gives me hope.