@heartathome @rav3n I agree, caring for people can be so emotionally tiring. I didn't fully realise how emotionally tired I was from the weight of taking on other people's issues until earlier this year, and someone I spoke to pointed it out to me. Recognising it really helped me to be aware of it, and of the need to mentally "offload" the responsibility for things outside my control, and just be caring and open but keeping the responsibility for things where they belonged and not taking it on.
Of course being a parent there is more responsibility! But parents are not really able to be responsible for everything their child chooses to do - esp as they become teenagers and young adults. But if there are some safety rails in place, hopefully that means that even if the children make some bad choices they can still have safe parents to support them and learn from their mistakes.
