Different forms of enabling behavior
Enabling may accidentally happen when you are trying to help, but after an extended period, you realise that you are really helping.
- Cleaning up after someone is one form of enabling behavior and includes any way of protecting the person from the negative consequences of their own behavior.
- A partner lies to his in-laws about his wife's drug problem to protect her from embarrassment.
- A sibling pays his brother's rent because he regularly loses his money to gambling.
It might be okay if it happened once, but if these "rescues" happen repeatedly, they don't get to learn from the cause-and-effect pattern of their behaviors.
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