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When financial boundaries feel like emotional abandonment

My gambling-addicted father keeps asking for loans and I keep saying no but watching him lose his apartment feels like I am choosing money over love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Refusing to enable destructive behavior creates the painful illusion that practical limits represent a withdrawal of care rather than a different expression of it.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Punishment consequences and natural boundaries?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.