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Talked with someone today who has an impossible teen/child. Sad for them.

A friend of a friend is stuck in a relationship with an addict. Predictable grief.

Another friend, who, unlike me, is clear-eyed and decisive in romantic matters,
is sometimes unaccountably soft-hearted and forgiving when it comes
to clearly unworthy and irreformable friends.

We can make choices. But when the heart gets engaged, free will,
not unencumbered to begin with by passion and ignorance, is further reduced.
I know that because I read it in a book...