How to Recognize Enabling Behaviors
Assess if you're protecting someone who engages in self-destructive or impulsive behaviors.. Look for signs of enabling.. Look at your own reactions to their behaviors.
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Assess if you're protecting someone who engages in self-destructive or impulsive
Assess if you're protecting someone who engages in self-destructive or impulsive behaviors.
Look for signs of enabling.
Look for signs of enabling.
Look at your own reactions to their behaviors.
Look at your own reactions to their behaviors.
Evaluate if you are enabling or empowering this person.
Evaluate if you are enabling or empowering this person.
Assess how healthy your relationship is.
Assess how healthy your relationship is.
Evaluate your fears about the relationship.
Evaluate your fears about the relationship.
Evaluate if the love you receive is contingent on being a caregiver.
Evaluate if the love you receive is contingent on being a caregiver.
Avoid assuming that the situation is your fault.
Avoid assuming that the situation is your fault.
Communicate your expectations and boundaries.
Communicate your expectations and boundaries.
Avoid cleaning up their messes.
Avoid cleaning up their messes.
Determine if helping someone may be hurting them in the long run.
Determine if helping someone may be hurting them in the long run.
Establish your independence.
Establish your independence.
Keep your plans, even if the person fails to participate.
Keep your plans, even if the person fails to participate.
Remember that you cannot make someone change.
Remember that you cannot make someone change.
Seek help for yourself.
Seek help for yourself.
Encourage the person to find support.
Encourage the person to find support.
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