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“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.” ― Virginia Satir One of my favorite classes in school was Family Counseling. Family is the base. It is difficult to understand and treat the individual without understanding where he or she came from. I recall the videos of old school family therapists. Breaking apart years of patterns while smoking cigarettes on the pleather couch. All on 1976 to 87 vhs cassettes...I'd sit in class fascinated...So much angst, love, anger (lots of anger..lots of love)...Sweet beautiful complicated Family