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How to distinguish between supportive sharing and harmful enabling

My mother says helping family is never wrong but my brother keeps asking for money to fund his addiction and I don't know where generosity ends and enabling begins.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of human need requires discernment that goes beyond simple rules about generosity to understand what truly serves love and healing versus what perpetuates harm.

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“Where Are You with Indigenous approaches to wealth and sharing?”

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