On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager says: You out there who enable the chronically unhappy should feel awful because you are making your own lives miserable and you are enabling the miserable to stay miserable.
Everybody does this. You have to be very strong not to do this.
If we did not enable the chronically miserable, they would change.
I’m talking about unhappy people who take out their bad moods on others.
I don’t think we enable friends as much, because we simply drop them if they’re too drippy.
You can’t make the unhappy happy. We have to tell the chronically unhappy people in our lives — I can handle your depression, but I can’t handle you taking it out on me.
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