Care vs. Caretaking
In this audio Q&A, Ginny explores the question: How do we offer care without sliding into caretaking?
When someone we love is struggling with moving through grief, illness, mental health challenges, or a season of acute stress, the pull to disappear into their experience can be overwhelming. Everything in us wants to help, to hold, or to make it better. But somewhere in the process of giving so much, we can lose track of where they end and we begin.
This conversation is for the partner on the other side: the one trying to stay present, stay caring, and somehow still stay themselves. How do we honor what our partner is moving through without erasing our own needs, desires, and aliveness in the process?
(This is an excerpt from a Telegram Q&A within The Lovers Collective.)