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When supporting a friend through crisis feels like enabling harmful choices

My closest friend has been going through a brutal divorce and I want to support her, but she keeps making decisions that seem destructive and gets angry when I express any concern. I feel like I'm watching someone I love hurt herself and I don't know where the line is between support and enabling.

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