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One of those sleepless nights and sadness-filled mornings
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 641048" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>A flask of coffee, some pastries, warm socks and a mothers love go a long, long way Lucy. </p><p></p><p>When I was giving my daughter tons of money she never appreciated it. Once I detached and set boundaries, now I drive her to work on occasion and she hugs me and is so grateful. </p><p></p><p>I think they come to realize, when we stop enabling, just how much they really do love us, separate from their needs and their past notion that their needs were our problem................my daughter's gratitude for those simple motherly gestures that come so natural to us has expanded in the exact proportion to my having valued myself enough to set those boundaries. </p><p></p><p>I think what you're doing comes from the heart and of course is no magic cure, but a true gesture of your love. And, it warms our own hearts too, to give those nourishing things to our kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 641048, member: 13542"] A flask of coffee, some pastries, warm socks and a mothers love go a long, long way Lucy. When I was giving my daughter tons of money she never appreciated it. Once I detached and set boundaries, now I drive her to work on occasion and she hugs me and is so grateful. I think they come to realize, when we stop enabling, just how much they really do love us, separate from their needs and their past notion that their needs were our problem................my daughter's gratitude for those simple motherly gestures that come so natural to us has expanded in the exact proportion to my having valued myself enough to set those boundaries. I think what you're doing comes from the heart and of course is no magic cure, but a true gesture of your love. And, it warms our own hearts too, to give those nourishing things to our kids. [/QUOTE]
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