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ECHOES said:
You can't "get" him to listen.

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I need some way to influence him to listen. Some way. Somehow. Otherwise there isn't much hope.

It is very scary for me to try to balance finding some way to influence him with my already present fears. My mother would (it seems) always find some way to detect that I was trying to influence her, and react with fury.