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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 323320" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: teal">Well, of course, this is timely for me today. Thanks for sharing it. I receive their newsletters as well, but I missed today's.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: teal">I think when practicing detachment, some perceive it to mean that you stop caring. Not true. Practicing detachment <em>for me </em>means to take better care of myself and stop focusing on other's beliefs or behaviors; strop trying to make them 'see my way' as opposed to finding their own way. Allowing them to figure out how to take care of themselves in a way that suits them without interferring can be difficult, but it's healthy. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: teal">It is difficult to watch a person fumbling around without wanting to step in and 'show them the way'. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: teal">Fosucing on ourselves and our own needs or ways of living is a way of practicing self preservation. <em>For me</em>, while I was trying to practice detachment from my loco sister, and then difficult child, I had to remind myself that I was also preserving my own sanity - that idea is what really helped me in the long run.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 323320, member: 2211"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=teal]Well, of course, this is timely for me today. Thanks for sharing it. I receive their newsletters as well, but I missed today's.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=teal][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=teal]I think when practicing detachment, some perceive it to mean that you stop caring. Not true. Practicing detachment [I]for me [/I]means to take better care of myself and stop focusing on other's beliefs or behaviors; strop trying to make them 'see my way' as opposed to finding their own way. Allowing them to figure out how to take care of themselves in a way that suits them without interferring can be difficult, but it's healthy. [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=4][COLOR=teal]It is difficult to watch a person fumbling around without wanting to step in and 'show them the way'. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=teal][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=teal]Fosucing on ourselves and our own needs or ways of living is a way of practicing self preservation. [I]For me[/I], while I was trying to practice detachment from my loco sister, and then difficult child, I had to remind myself that I was also preserving my own sanity - that idea is what really helped me in the long run.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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