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How to Be a True Friend to a Family Caregiver

By Carol Bradley Bursack — 2021

Family caregivers often find that their social circles shrink over time. Casual friends are typically the first to drift away because a caregiver is too busy to get together, but close friends may disappear eventually as well. These friends are not bad people, though. More than likely, they don’t know how to help a caregiver and they find it easier to share their time with people whose lives are less complicated.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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