“You can still love your father as much as you always have. That never goes away. But you don’t have to keep engaging in the same way again and again with people who have hurt you, hoping for a different result. You can protect yourself first. But you don’t have to stop loving them either.”

“You can still love your father as much as you always have. That never goes away. But you don’t have to keep engaging in the same way again and again with people who have hurt you, hoping for a different result. You can protect yourself first. But you don’t have to stop loving them either.”

— Mandy Stadtmiller