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Comments on: Two Left https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682 A mid-life shrink raps about life, friendship, psychology, and politics Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-621 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:49:38 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-621 In reply to hbksloss.

Thanks, Heidi. These things are always dicey, particularly since it’s so hard to know whether saying something will help, or engender stronger determination to keep right on going. What did your relative do? At any rate, I’m glad you were able to quit. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I also lost a bunch of weight and have kept most of it off for 13 years. Not easy, and if anyone was ever so foolish to say I should lose weight, it always made me want to head straight for the Haagen-Dazs. We are wondrous and defiant creatures!

]]> By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-620 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:43:09 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-620 In reply to Nancy Anne MacPhee.

Thanks, Nancy. I hope so too!

]]> By: shrinkrapped https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-619 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:42:32 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-619 In reply to Janine Kovac.

Thanks, Janine. I hope you are right about poems and pleas, but they can also backfire.

]]> By: Janine Kovac https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-617 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:52:35 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-617 I’m sorry for your loss, Lorrie. It’s a tough habit to break–but poems and pleas are powerful, too.

]]> By: Nancy Anne MacPhee https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-616 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:07:00 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-616 So sorry for your loss Lorrie, I hope your brother makes the right decision!

]]> By: hbksloss https://shrinkrapped.com/?p=682&cpage=1#comment-615 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:58:21 +0000 http://r9f.352.myftpupload.com/?p=682#comment-615 Two years ago my son and I caused a HUGE family fight when we told a (then) 17 year old relative that he was crazy for smoking, especially after losing my father-in-law to smoking related throat cancer. Could our delivery have been different? Perhaps, but no one else in the family said a word to him about it; they didn’t want to upset him. And frankly it is crazy to smoke! I was a 1-1 1/2 pack a day smoker in the 1970’s. One of the best things I did was to quit back then. Another was to lose 55 lbs. but that is another story.

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