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When Love Feels Like It Requires Harmful Actions

My adult son is addicted to drugs and keeps asking for money, and I keep giving it to him even though I know I am enabling him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental love can become a compulsion that overrides wisdom about what actually serves our children.

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