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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 586616" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Dash, one of the pretty awful things I had to confront in my own therapy is, <em>what if she dies?</em> Oh God, the end game fear to trump all fears as far as I'm concerned. And, what if she dies <em>and I could have helped her</em>.....<em>and didn't..</em>......yikes.........but the truth is that I had to look at that because how on earth can I prevent it? What can I do to insure that with all her horrible dramatic, extremely risky behaviors that she will be okay, that I can somehow keep her safe. My powerlessness at that point was <strong>EPIC.</strong> But, I <strong>am </strong>powerless,that is the bottom line of giving up control, of stopping the enabling, of letting go. <strong>I AM POWERLESS.</strong> All we can do is allow fate to happen and trust ourselves to be able to be present no matter what happens. Pretty ugly in many ways I know, but also the way out of the daily suffering...............HUGS........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 586616, member: 13542"] Dash, one of the pretty awful things I had to confront in my own therapy is, [I]what if she dies?[/I] Oh God, the end game fear to trump all fears as far as I'm concerned. And, what if she dies [I]and I could have helped her[/I].....[I]and didn't..[/I]......yikes.........but the truth is that I had to look at that because how on earth can I prevent it? What can I do to insure that with all her horrible dramatic, extremely risky behaviors that she will be okay, that I can somehow keep her safe. My powerlessness at that point was [B]EPIC.[/B] But, I [B]am [/B]powerless,that is the bottom line of giving up control, of stopping the enabling, of letting go. [B]I AM POWERLESS.[/B] All we can do is allow fate to happen and trust ourselves to be able to be present no matter what happens. Pretty ugly in many ways I know, but also the way out of the daily suffering...............HUGS........ [/QUOTE]
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