I would like them to be happy at least partly because I make them so – as far as it is ever possible to make another person be happy.
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I don't know that it IS possible
If YOU are happy and do not look to them to save you (or to yourself to save them), but give them loving, non-reactive room to work out their own destiny, perhaps listening and asking questions rather than proposing solutions to “fix” whatever you or they perceive is wrong or unhappy-making… that might just be the best way.
I don’t know if we can “make” anyone do anything, in fact.
Or if we even should. Sometimes unhappinessis part of what a person needs to inflict on themselves or go through situationally to grow and develop.
A friend calls the kind of rigorous self-care and self-soothing needed to pull off this loving by hands-off kind of spaciousness “keeping your own side of the street clean.”
Good luck.
Myself
Great advice dear!
:)
I have lost out on the wonders of relationship school too many times in the past
... by well-intendedly treating people who I loved as if they were fix-up projects, or buying into their pleas to help me solve their problems (and then rejection or anger when I tried). Outgrowing this, or working on outgrowing this, seeing that something that is difficult (in me or them or in either of our lives is not necessarily bad or useless even if painful) has been and still is a biiiiig developmental thing for me.
Thanks for the compliment.
xxoo
from ms. learn-the-hard-way
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