Re: The boundaries of parental responsibility


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Posted by Mike Field on August 30, 2009 at 09:24:08 user mikefield.

In Reply to: Re: The boundaries of parental responsibility posted by John Lambert on August 26, 2009 at 06:41:34:

Thanks John.

It always seems to me that sensitive people face this sort of problem earlier than the rest of us.

Everyone has problems, but some conceal them better from themselves than others.

In my experience very many people seem to go through life for years, having problems like everyone else, but simply not admitting to them. In fact, some really unaware people are indeed really unaware that they have any problems at all -- they go to their graves with their problems obvious to (and causing problems for) others but to which they themselves remain in oblivion.

Most people though are forced by circumstances into having to admit their problems to themselves eventually. The trouble is that it comes so late to the emotionally-unintelligent ones that they are by then so deeply ingrained in their habits of denial that they have lost whatever ability to cope they might once have had. And then heaven help those around them when the dam bursts.

I can think of a recent example....

That's why I'm so glad that Suse was able to recognise early that she had a problem, and was able to deal with it so well. I'm very proud of her.


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