Our family has been dealing with my brother's addiction for years and we all enable him in different ways while telling ourselves we're helping. We can't keep doing this but we also can't figure out how to love him without destroying ourselves.
More people experience this than they realize.
Love has become entangled with harm, making it impossible to know what help actually looks like.
“Where Are You with Anticipatory grief — losing someone before they die?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.