Tag: care-taking

When friends and family members are going through a rough time, often our immediate reaction is to try to resolve the situation for them. To ease their pain. To make life better. If a family or personal relationship with a friend isn't going the way we want, a common reaction is to cling harder, trying to convince the other person stick around. Unfortunately, when we try to manage the lives of others, we do both them and ourselves a disservice. In essence, we disempower them and interfere with their own opportunity to grow.