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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:41 am
by hoppy
Cuz ya lets 'em.:D

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:54 am
by Jazzy
I think the more you help people, the more dependant they become on you to be there and supply them with whatever they need. I don't mind helping people and I also enjoy doing it but I have to know my limit. When it starts to take a toll on my finances or emotions, I end it.

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:58 am
by YZGI
There are buckets and dippers, you're a bucket, I'm a bucket. Dippers are always going to dipping out od us buckets, ya just gotta know how much dipping to allow. When someone asks what you are, just say bucket.:D

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:59 am
by Ahso!
Jazzy;1269487 wrote: I think the more you help people, the more dependant they become on you to be there and supply them with whatever they need. I don't mind helping people and I also enjoy doing it but I have to know my limit. When it starts to take a toll on my finances or emotions, I end it.Its difficult to know where or how to regulate the degree of assistance to provide others in order to protect your own emotional state.

Sometimes I permit myself to get too drawn in too and then find I have to pull back too much in order to compensate. Its a thin rope to walk.

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:03 am
by Betty Boop
YZGI;1269488 wrote: There are buckets and dippers, you're a bucket, I'm a bucket. Dippers are always going to dipping out od us buckets, ya just gotta know how much dipping to allow. When someone asks what you are, just say bucket.:D


Do you not find that sometimes you switch from one to the other, for a while you may be the dipper, then you switch to be a bucket. Surely one should aim to surround themselves with a balance of both. What you need to avoid is the leeches :D

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:09 am
by Ahso!
Betty Boop;1269492 wrote: Do you not find that sometimes you switch from one to the other, for a while you may be the dipper, then you switch to be a bucket. Surely one should aim to surround themselves with a balance of both. What you need to avoid is the leeches :DLike Frank Sinatra said in "That's Life";

I've been a bucket, a dipper, a pirate,

A poet, a pawn and a king.

I've been up and down and over and out

And I know one thing:

Each time I find myself laying flat on my face,

I just pick myself up and get back in the race

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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:10 am
by YZGI
Betty Boop;1269492 wrote: Do you not find that sometimes you switch from one to the other, for a while you may be the dipper, then you switch to be a bucket. Surely one should aim to surround themselves with a balance of both. What you need to avoid is the leeches :D
Not really Betty, I think I'm destined to be a bucket. I think I like being a bucket, I don't necessarily do the things for the other people , I think I do them because it makes me feel better about myself.