" . . . I knew I probably wasn’t gonna change her proclivity for hanging onto friends who abused her, so I made myself less available for her diatribes. . . ." good bit of wisdom there, Shari . . . sometimes you can talk with someone until you're both blue in the face and they still won't accept what you're saying . . . and even following a bout of tough love things still don't change so you sigh and accept them, self-defeating behavior and all.
" . . . I knew I probably wasn’t gonna change her proclivity for hanging onto friends who abused her, so I made myself less available for her diatribes. . . ." good bit of wisdom there, Shari . . . sometimes you can talk with someone until you're both blue in the face and they still won't accept what you're saying . . . and even following a bout of tough love things still don't change so you sigh and accept them, self-defeating behavior and all.
Indeed. And far more people than we might think, have adapted to pain and learned to love it.