Amazing things can happen when we surrender the idea that we aren’t to fix the people closest to us. First, we change. Our emotional frustration lowers. Second, the person we were trying to fix is now more open to the idea of changing themselves, because resisting being changed is resisting change. The walls can come down. The defenses can lower. There’s no guarantee, but the option is more available than when it seemed like it was being forced upon them. People don’t need fixing, they need witnessed. To be heard. Seen. Known. Giving up the illusion of fixing another is the path to what is truly needed.