Regarding the story of the horse, what I take from it is that you can't live on a diminishing diet. We can't support a M by paying less and less attention to it, nor we can we be supported if our S is giving us less and less attention. Eventually the M will die.
lodo
That's good, and how about we also need to give ourselves time and care, we can't keep going if we neglect/ignore ourselves also? That's something that I think a lot of us have done at least in the past...Karen