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<blockquote data-quote="TheWalrus" data-source="post: 678259" data-attributes="member: 19905"><p>You stay strong by doing what you are doing: protecting your family, your home AND your daughter by not giving her what she wants but offering what she needs. Until she can switch those two things in her mind, you have to put your energy into the life and the family that are right there in front of you and rest easy knowing you are doing the right thing. </p><p></p><p>I have heard the "I want to change, I want to be my old self, I want..." more times than I can count. The "want" is easy. It is the "I will work to change, I will work to meet my potential as a person, I will work..." mindset they must have. They give up and give in when the work gets too hard and revert to the old habits, not realizing that they go further down the rabbit hole and the work gets harder and harder to ever get out. </p><p></p><p>I "want" mine to change, too, and if she ever decides to commit to "work" for it, I will "work" with her. Not until.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheWalrus, post: 678259, member: 19905"] You stay strong by doing what you are doing: protecting your family, your home AND your daughter by not giving her what she wants but offering what she needs. Until she can switch those two things in her mind, you have to put your energy into the life and the family that are right there in front of you and rest easy knowing you are doing the right thing. I have heard the "I want to change, I want to be my old self, I want..." more times than I can count. The "want" is easy. It is the "I will work to change, I will work to meet my potential as a person, I will work..." mindset they must have. They give up and give in when the work gets too hard and revert to the old habits, not realizing that they go further down the rabbit hole and the work gets harder and harder to ever get out. I "want" mine to change, too, and if she ever decides to commit to "work" for it, I will "work" with her. Not until. [/QUOTE]
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