Robin Norwood Quote
Taking responsibility for yourself and your happiness gives a great freedom to children who have felt guilty and responsible for your unhappiness (which they always do). A child can never hope to balance the scales or repay the debt when a parent has sacrificed her life, her happiness, her fulfilment for the child or the family. Seeing a parent fully embrace life gives a child the permission to do the same, just as seeing a parent suffer indicates to the child that suffering is what life is all about.
Robin Norwood
Taking responsibility for yourself and your happiness gives a great freedom to children who have felt guilty and responsible for your unhappiness (which they always do). A child can never hope to balance the scales or repay the debt when a parent has sacrificed her life, her happiness, her fulfilment for the child or the family. Seeing a parent fully embrace life gives a child the permission to do the same, just as seeing a parent suffer indicates to the child that suffering is what life is all about.
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About Robin Norwood
Robin Norwood (born July 27, 1945) is the author of the international best-selling book, Women Who Love Too Much as well as Letters from Women Who Love Too Much, Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much (illustrated by Richard Torregrossa) and Why Me? Why This? Why Now?. Robin Norwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist who worked in the field of addiction for fifteen years. She specialised in treating co-alcoholism and relationship addiction. She lives on a ranch in the central coast area of California.