May 10
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Family Relationship Advice
Why do the ones we love and care for the most, hurt us? When you care for someone, you don’t want to see them get hurt in any way. You don’t want to see them fail. At the end of the day, you want nothing but the best for them, but for some reason, they don’t always see it that way. 
It’s true that when you love someone, your heart weakens for them. The thought of self is as rare as a diamond and the thought of joy would never exist without their well being. It almost seems as if you live for this person, evolving your life around theirs. I’m sure many parents know that feeling; something that the youth learn to understand later on in their lives.
We use to think that our parents were our worse enemies. “Let me live my life,” we say. See, we use to think, while some still think, that our parents don’t want us to be happy. My parents always say, “Wait until you have your kids, you’ll understand.” I came to realize that it wasn’t all about having your own kids to understand, it was really the power of love itself.
Love is so powerful that it looks to be a protector, a guardian, a life saver. Our relationships with the ones we love can really go sour when we try to contain them for the dangers of this world. While the word contain means protection to us, it means entrapped to them. No one wants to be trapped because being trapped means losing control of oneself. This is why the quality of understanding becomes important.
Think about it. Someone who doesn’t care about you, could care less about your well-being. Someone who doesn’t care for you doesn’t take the time to foresee the dangers you may encounter for they are too busy thinking about themselves. We never seem to realize it right away, but sooner or later, it sinks in.
Family relationship advice? Embrace the ones that “annoy” you. Embrace the ones that “hate” you. Embrace the love that you’re blinded from. Bottom line, embrace the ones that acknowledge your existence, your being, because true love is consistent so the more annoyed and hated you feel, the more love you are receiving. These people will continue to be there while the world just continues to pass you by.
