Seeing it as the best choice for the other person, even if it may not be the one that you would make, is allowing that person the freedom to live and be who they need to be. At whatever point in their emotional development they are in.
<standing, hands clapping>
That IS IT.....
So this
Originally Posted By: cat
The only choice we have in the matter, especially if something does cause us pain, is to decide if the choices of the other person affect us in such a way that we are unable to have that person around us anymore or not.
Is up to you.
And the idea is to decide this when you haved reached the point where you are not doing it out of anger.
RATHER
Understanding and compassion.
The answer here is not indifference.
It is easy to detach from an A$$hole (nickel Mach)
The path to our salvation is to do it with love and compassion.
Then you are truly free...
My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am
