Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Sultana
This is what we call enabling. Don't be an enabler. It makes you a bad person. ;P
No, but seriously. You're preventing your friend from experiencing the consequenses of his actions. He might surprise you. Or he might be asked to refrain from smoking by someone else very important down the road, and he's never had to do it 'cause you've created an artifical protective environment...yeah, it's a little rediculous, and I'm using hyperbole to emphasize the point. If you're not going to be honest (uh oh, bad person alert) and tell him you don't want him to when he asks, at least tell him why you don't feel that you could ask him to refrain.
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Thank you that was what I was grasping at but couldn't seem to formulate.
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