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When we offer support and are rejected - October 9th - Beauty of Beginnings

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October 9th 2026

When we offer support and are rejected

When we offer support and are rejected

You see someone struggling. You offer to help. They decline. You insist; they still decline your offer.

Common scenario.

What if the offer to help, support or assist is to a beloved?

And later, they blame you for their stressful life. Or add these struggling circumstances to their list of stresses, and blame you for all of them.

When we offer support or help, and we are rejected in our offer, then our offer is complete. We grant the other person the sovereignty of choice – to accept or reject the offer. Sovereignty of choice includes the responsibility that goes with it. To then accept blame for what happens next when your offer of support is rejected is to continue the entanglement, rather than to grant the other sovereignty of choice.

When we do this, we never allow for the development of personal responsibility of the choice maker. And we remain enmeshed in a co-dependent, unhealthy relationship.

It is a lose-lose game. No one grows up. The entanglement keeps all parties fractured.

Honour a person’s right to choose. Grant them the full right. You can repeat your offer of support should they wish to take it up at a future date. But the offer and rejection are a complete transaction. If they then project shame, guilt, blame, or anger on you, refuse to accept it.

They made the choice. They pay the price. This goes for children and adults.

Many times in my work as a coach, I make an offer to support. I might provide suggestions and guidance. If the offer is rejected, I grant the chooser full sovereignty. I am complete. I do not walk away and wash my hands. I hold the space, with love, for the choice maker. If the choice they made has heavy consequences, I do not need to say – I told you so. My work is not about being right. It is about providing the space, platform and tools for evolutionary development. Instead, we explore the lessons together. I invite them to consider that they never need to do that again.

Relationships are exactly that: a minimum of two. Plural. Never one-sided.

Published October 9th 2026. Photo taken September 26th 2026

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