No but my older brother loves attempting to control who I'm with. He now doesn't understand why after he spent a Christmas running my husband down I refuse to speak to him unless he apologizes! At 35 I don't need him telling me how to live my life especially when he's miserable with his.
I have. A daughter of FORMER friends was following in the footsteps of older sister as a runaway. She included suicidal, self destruction to the mix. Little girls that run away do a couple of things to survive and they include begging, stealing, begging and prostitution. Neither of these girls were beggars. The younger one convinced me that she was suicidal. I ntervened and wouldn'T DO IT AGAIN.. WHEN DAUGHTER FOUND OUT THAT MOM AND DAD QUIT LISTENING TO ME, she started lying to me. She was already lying to her parents. She wound up in prison before she woke and smelled the coffee. I've since heard that she saw the light and got out of prison early for good behavior. I hope I was instrumental in her not taking her life. I sure paid a huge price trying to keep her alive.
No. Waste of time as the more you profess your objection the more they cling fiercely to the object of their desire. Give advice, a warning..anything else is a waste.
No, I have three grown children, and three of my grandchildren are grown, "if" they ask for my advice, I give it. If they don't, I keep my nose out of their business and I just do a lot of praying for them. Sometimes it's hard to watch them do some of the things that they do, but our parents and grandparents advised us, and we made choices that didn't always agree with them, but I guess the important thing is to be there should they fall and need that encouragement to get up, dust themselves off and try it again. Usually after this, they are willing to listen to your advice.
did not, I always remained himself. I am pretty neutral, later to be from someone intruded into private. The truth is that I wanted my friend to stop the relationship, but my feeling told me to take care of themselves. And so I did.
Yup 1 time. I found out my lil sis was banging her high school teacher. 40 yr old married man with kids she was 18. I said knock it off or Dudes gunna be drinkin his food through a straw ! She stopped more scared mom would find out
Yup. When I choose friends, or they choose me, I am clear about who I am and what I do. The one thing I insist on doing and them doing, is being HONEST. When I have found that someone they believe to be honest with them, is NOT, I tell them, whether it is family or friend. I'm not talking about little stupid lies, I'm talking about lies that will affect their lives. Oh yes, it will cause trouble, but I can handle it. You can call that anything you want to, I don't care. Of course there is a time and a place to do this, I know that, but there is no time or place to be deceitful.
I expressed my opinion to a co-worker that she could do better than her emotionally abusive boyfriend and that being alone was better than being with him. But he was a real parasite and his actions were having a serious negative impact on her health. Other than that, I keep my nose out of other people's business.
Stay out of it!