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ENABLING VS. HELPING
Don’t Put Your Loved One’s Addiction Problems On Your Shoulders
When people make their problems our problem, we aren’t helping them we’re enabling them. Once we take their problem from them, all we’re doing is taking away their ability to solve it.
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What Is Enabling and How Does it Hurt Your Loved One?
The natural instinct of any caring mother or father is to help an ailing loved one. With the majority of people being under the impression that addiction is a disease, continuing to aid an addicted loved one might make sense and seem to be the right thing to do. Regrettably, this is not the case.