Love That doesn't manipulate

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> "The maturest form of love is not the kind that manipulates others to become what it wants them to be but that which frees others to become what they are meant to be. God lets us walk alone because he love us enough to let us become ourselves." -Together/May 1966 - the parent who clings to the child and does not let the child go out and find his/her own way ends up enslaving the child and the parent. There have been times when a child has stayed home to run the"" family business when secretly he/she wanted to do something else. And there have been times when the child has been allowed to go do what he/she wanted and later chose to come back and take over the "family business" . What is the difference between one and the other?......
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