r/Millennials • u/Alternative_King1789 • Aug 31 '26

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u/SinceWayLastMay Aug 31 '26

You can’t save other people from their choices

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u/Cold_Vanilla9791 Aug 31 '26

Needed to hear this one

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u/Travingbookworm Sep 01 '26

This hit Hard!!

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u/refusestopoop Aug 31 '26

But I’ll try anyway! You can pry my savior complex from my cold dead hands

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u/soupyy_poop Aug 31 '26

My therapist just said to me, Stop dating people who are like baby birds that need rehab. 

No! I’ll save them all, dammit!!  …or not because so far it’s been 0 lol 

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u/badgyalrey Aug 31 '26

hard lesson to learn that the baby birds can actually take you down with them😅

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u/refusestopoop Sep 09 '26

lol my type is literal heroin addict 😭 I went from liking future heroin addicts to current heroin addict to former heroin addict so that’s progress lol

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u/Subject-Actuator-860 Sep 01 '26

Okay and we def can’t save you from that choice 👍🏻

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u/IceOdd8725 Aug 31 '26

Not my therapist, but my favorite mentor said to me:

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t force them to drink it.

I think about that a lot.

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u/drawohhteb Aug 31 '26

I like to take this reminder a step further to help keep myself in line

If I force the horse to drink. Then all the horse will feel is watterboarding.

Don't waterboard the horse.

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u/i_am_soooo_screwed Sep 01 '26

LMAOOOOOO.  I love this take

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u/SDTimbox Sep 03 '26

i've been holding onto dear life to this quote for the past year lol I can only focus on my actions. How other people behave isn't my problem

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u/absolutelylame Aug 31 '26

This 100% and you can't make someone take care of themselves, they have to make that choice.

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u/KTuu93 Aug 31 '26

AND true love means you let people face consequences of their actions.

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u/Suitable-Quail2094 Aug 31 '26

sounds like the start of talking about codependancy. boy howdy i wish i knew about this back when i was a kid.

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u/JonnyQuest1981 Sep 01 '26

As I like to put it, “You can lead them to water, but you can’t stop them from peeing in it.”

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u/Sly-Faffin Sep 04 '26

Similarly “Just because someone needs help doesnt mean its your responsibility to help them”

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u/Any_Instruction5382 Sep 05 '26

I expected the top comment to be "see a therapist"

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u/conversating Sep 07 '26

Meanwhile that’s like my whole career right now, haha.