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When protecting someone enables ongoing harm

I've been covering for my alcoholic coworker's mistakes for months and my boss is starting to notice and I feel torn between loyalty and protecting the rest of the team.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The difference between compassion and enabling reveals how acts of loyalty can sometimes perpetuate the very problems they seek to address.

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