Quotes About Support

Your feelings need to be validated just as much as those of the person with BPD.

Allow people to be who they are instead of what you want them to be. Send healthy support messages like, "I'm here if you need me, but your choices—and the consequences—belong to you.

When we're lonely, most of us can soothe ourselves by remembering the love that others have for us. This can be very comforting, even if these people are far away—sometimes even if they're no longer living. This ability to hold others close, even in their physical absence, is called object constancy.

Reflective listening is another helpful style of communicating where you give the speaker your impression of what he or she is feeling to show you are listening and that you care.

Many people we talked to for this book told us that the person with BPD in their life seemed to be aware of their triggers.

detach with love Some family members practice detaching with love, a concept promoted by Al-Anon,

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

When you're in trouble, go and see your mother.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

Ce s-ar întâmpla cu noi, f?r? ajutorul a ceea ce nu exist??

Mensen kunnen helpen, binnen een rechtstreeks contact, is een van de zaken die ons het meest gelukkig maken. Zorg voor onszelf loopt via zorg voor de ander, bij uitbreiding, via zorg voor de gemeenschap.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

chemotherapy as a cancer cure is pathetic.

Life is difficult and prayer would be the best gift I could give them.

Having another Christian woman who was dealing with cancer, one I could talk to, had been a real help.

Missing those all-important life events like weddings and grandchildren, not celebrating the victories and special experiences or being there to offer support and share the tears of painful circumstances that were sure to invade the lives of those I loved. My grandparents and parents were supposed to die before me. Leaving behind all the precious people in my life would be my greatest regret. I was a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. I couldn't imagine not being

Talking to others who understand what you're going through can help.

Fighting with your best friend is NO fun.