If you had to make a choice where the end result of it would make you happy but ...?

Question

If you had to make a choice where the end result of your actions would make you happy but could possibly cost you valuable friendships and your close family would probaly shun you, what would you choose? I'm thinking of taking herbal hormones to speed up the process that I already started with hypnosis, but I'm afaid of loosing what's most important to me (my family {my mom especaily})

Answer 1

It's a hard choice, and one I've struggled with for years. In the end it comes down to whether or not the risk of losing your family is greater than the pain of denying your own happiness (something that can possibly cause you to lose your family and friends anyway.) And that's a question only you can answer.

(Although, a *good* therapist is trained to help you find that answer and deal with the consequences.)

Answer 2

I lost much of my family when I was fourteen for some absolutely nutty reasons, and decades later I miss them terribly, even though they are the ones who abandon me. I wasn't even informed of my own mother's death till she had been gone for a year, and to make matters worse no one will tell me where her grave is. I would not wish that on anybody. Please think hard before doing something that can make you lose your mother. No matter what your life circumstances are it is hard to be happy if your own mother doesn't want you around.

Answer 3

Since herbal hormones will do about as much as wishing on a star I wouldn't bother telling anyone.