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How to Stop Financially Supporting an Adult Sibling Who Won't Help Themselves

I have been supporting my adult brother financially for three years and he shows no signs of trying to become independent and I feel trapped between love and enabling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Compassion becomes complicity when it shields another from the consequences that might awaken their own strength.

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