… help your best friend make positive, healthy life changes without taking on the responsibility of living their ENTIRE LIFE for them?
“Leave your addicted, parasitic significant other.”
“Focus more on your art … you are so gifted, and you need to create!”
“No, you are not hideous. You are such a beautiful person.”
etc.
etc.
etc.
……….. I mean, it is way deeper than this. But I just don’t feel like describing a typical exchange in linear form. I will just say that it’s gotten to the point where I feel like a mother. I want to help, but I’m not sure how much more I can do. :(