Originally Posted by
Learn2Live 
Chicory, really, he is not yours and he was not placed on this earth to be your treasure.
Agreed. He has his own path to take.
We all experience pain in our lives. It helps us to grow by overcoming our problems. If someone fixes them FOR us, we never grow and never experience the personal satisfaction of self-reliance.
I'd like to spare my kids pain in their lives, too--who wouldn't? But I can't protect them from heartbreak and tragedy. They have to learn to work through those feelings, themselves.
I avoided uncomfortable feelings for YEARS by numbing out with alcohol. And it felt totally overwhelming at first to cope with them without booze. But it was only by working through the pain that I learned it will not kill me. I am much, much happier today--painful feelings and all--than I was when I was drinking them away.