Our family has been supporting my cousin through addiction recovery and we're all exhausted but none of us wants to be the one to set boundaries. We're enabling each other's inability to say no, and it's not helping him or us, but we don't know how to love him without rescuing him.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to save someone can become a shared addiction that serves everyone's need to feel needed more than it serves love.
“Where Are You with Ubuntu love — the communal dimension?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.