“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226”
Stephanie Dowrick
Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
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