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When helping becomes enabling

My adult daughter moved back home after her divorce and I love having her here but she is not trying to rebuild her life and I do not know when helping becomes enabling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love can create the very dependency it seeks to cure, trapping both giver and receiver in cycles of need.

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