It is so hard -actually it is traumatic- to watch someone that you love waste away especially when you know without a doubt that you would be wasting away too if you would have responded to that shared pain with an inch of weakness. Which means that you are a viable candidate for the suffering that the love one is trying to fight off...which means you are in a position to help! Back to that Love: The love is so strong that you are willing to trade places with the love one...thinking/believing that you can endure the pain that they are suffering from - and when you are better...when you are recovered Trading Places will be in order again...you will pass on the baton hoping that your renewed strength will be everlasting for the special Love One. Please remember that many of us are a foot step away from addiction, insanity, suicide, homelessness, financial loss, foreclosure, eviction, disease. Thus, we are Candidates for Trading Places!
