Leslie Loftis
Leslie Loftis

Aug 4, 2018

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Feeling responsible for something without having the power to change it is profoundly demotivating. It makes you less helpful to those around you, less present, and certainly much less fun. As this woman told me herself: While she was fretting about the president’s actions, she was neglecting her husband and young child.

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John-Paul Flintoff

If I am not mistaken, that is a primary element of co-dependency and a common weakness exploited by narcissists.

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