• stinerman@midwest.social
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    13 hours ago

    You can’t help people that don’t want help.

    Goes for people who are going through mental/physical health problems or substance abuse issues. If they don’t want help you have to accept that and be there for them when they do.

    • OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
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      I’ve always heard this as “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink”