Sunshine2,
You beat me to it! I was still thinking how to respond to soberbrooke when your post went up.
I am right with you on "refusing to enable" being different from "wanting to control." But what I got from soberbrooke's story is that playing God might also mean believing you know the future.
Anybody watching soberbrooke for the 9 years she was blowing through that money would've said, "Yep, no surprise here." But then look what happened! We really don't know the future.
Here's what my brother suggested last night: Cancel the life insurance policy.
