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> pointing out these simple facts generates lots of very aggressive resistance.

This, a thousand times, even from my own family. I've simply stopped trying to give advice.




I've had to make a personal rule to not get involved in anybody's life from where I grew up. It's simply too depressing watching them struggle with bad life-choice after bad life-choice, and only a few small changes would revolutionize their life and solve nearly all of their top issues.

The next biggest problem is that all of them want to talk about these bad life-choices with me, but don't want to hear the correct choice.




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