"you started it. The expo, the arc reactor, they're the beginning of that change you wanted to make. As for making the world better, you did. You expanded the company in directions your father refused to imagine. As for your belief in being a failure, at's hardly true. Anthony is brilliant, and while he has a rough exterior, I've come to believe that he's more soft hearted them any man who's father 'failed him' would be."
She offers Howard a small smile and rests her hands on his knees. "And I don't think he hates you. I think he doesn't know you. Give him time to adjust to the idea of you. Especially a you who is so much younger then any version of you that he'd have known. Heavens, he still lashes out at me in regards to not being his mother and I've been here for over a good month." She pursed her lips and frowned with a jutted out exasperation. "He's stubborn, like you. As for your being a horrible husband, we both know damn well that I wouldn't have stayed with you if you had been." And she would have. If he had been a horrible abusive husband she would have taken Tony and left. Even if it meant raising Tony as a fallen woman with her parents.