I definitely understand where you are coming from. There are always going to be people who will take these things and understand them differently. I think I can do a better job in future articles of putting disclaimers and elaborating more. Your feedback is greatly appreciated, because yes - I do understand abuse, I personally have been in multiple abusive relationships and grew up with an abusive father - I've found that compassion is what helps me to not become a victim and get stuck, but it doesn't mean those people need to remain in our lives. Its like forgiveness - its for us, not them. They can still be on their journey, and as women - we can be beautifully compassionate, but choose not to be in codependent relationships with men who require someone to abuse. I will explain that in better detail next time, my goal is always to encourage people to be empowered and take responsibility for themselves, their owns growth - so I think my definition of compassion is different than yours. I view it more as just having an empathetic understanding of how and why people are acting the way they are, it feels a lot better than just hatefully labelling someone as the problem - we all need to have more compassion for eachother because none of us are perfect and I do believe we're all doing the best we can with what we have. If you had addict parents you'd probably understand this too -its your opinion that someone isn't doing the best with the cards they are given, but maybe they aren't capable mentally of doing any better at that moment. I will elaborate more in future articles to not be writing anything that can be deemed as dangerous. Thanks for the feedback!