Resistance Is Inevitable

I'm Peter Rosenberger and this is your Caregiver Minute. While boundaries remain critical to healthy relationships, they sometimes develop on faulty information or impaired thinking. Caregivers inevitably collide with such boundaries while caring for loved ones.

These flawed boundaries may look like resisting rehab for injuries or resisting rehab for alcoholism or addiction issues. Refusing medications, respecting others' times or a whole host of other issues that result in flawed boundaries. Confronting those disputes requires wisdom from caregivers, particularly when a loved one is dug in behind years of stubbornness. Sometimes all that's needed is to clearly explain consequences of behaviors. But when confronting someone with addiction or impairment issues, for example, all many caregivers can do is provide buffers to minimize the damage while remaining at safe distances as circumstances deteriorate. In other cases, a caregiver must often bite his or her tongue and learn to like the taste of blood as a loved one experiences the outcome of stubbornness. Trying to force a solution against the will or boundaries of another usually ends in conflict and failure. Despite resistance or even desired results, we can learn to be at peace with our powerlessness over others' boundaries and instead focus on maintaining our own. This has been your caregiver minute with Peter Rosenberger.

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