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[quote=Anonymous]Every week we get an emotional family text: this is the week she's filing, this is her last-ever therapy appointment, etc. Then, the day comes and goes and she says she needs just one more appointment or was looking at photos and feeling sentimental. She and her spouse live separately, her therapist and even her doctor have urged her to divorce him for a variety of reasons, and she is veering into bankruptcy due to his gambling addiction. But she won't file. How can I be supportive without being enabling? I want to listen and help, but I can't pretend to psyche her up each week and then just get a text saying she isn't doing it. Is now the time for tough love? I have tried "I'll be here whenever you need me" but then it's a ramped up drama each week preparing to file and then she doesn't do it. I am struggling to be there for her in a way that is empathetic but also useful.[/quote]
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