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When helping becomes enabling destructive patterns

My 22-year-old son totaled his third car last month driving drunk and I bought him another one the next week because he needs to get to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The line between support and enablement often becomes clear only after irreversible damage has been done.

Worth thinking about

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