FM, you don't get someone else to consider anything. I know that's what you feel you must do, yet you do not have that kind of control over others to have them do what you think is best for them, or for you. You can only take care of yourself and do for yourself and that's what Michele gets across in her books. You're the key to everything else changing. You change first, then the dynamics of relationships opens the way eventually to others changing around you.