Tara Westover: "You Can Love Someone & Still Choose to Say Goodbye" | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

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Published 2019-05-05
Tara Westover, author of the "New York Times" best-selling memoir, "Educated," shares the powerful realization she had about love and letting go after she made the "hard" decision to become estranged from her survivalist Mormon parents. For more on #supersoulsunday, visit WatchOWN.tv/SSS

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All Comments (21)
  • To all the daughters who had to let go of their mothers while they are still alive. You can still love them but you can’t save them. You can’t parent them. You have to choose yourself and let go with love.
  • Love doesn't fix broken people. Sometimes you have to love yourself enough to walk away. ❤️
  • @alexarosev
    The irony of this popping up right when you need to hear it.. ❤️🙏🏻
  • @jeanie1137
    “You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.” - Tara Westover
  • @fayepatrice1672
    "I love them very much but I have accepted the fact that I need them to change in order to have them in my life, and whether or not they change is something I have no control over." Wow that's profound.
  • @cloudie8314
    "Family is determined more by behavior than by blood."
  • It's about choosing to be true to yourself rather than fake for someone else.
  • 🌈In case no one told you today: You’re beautiful. You’re loved. You’re needed. You’re alive for a reason. You’re stronger than you think. You’re going to get through this. I’m glad you’re alive. Don’t give up!❤️ This is for anyone reading who just doesn't hear it enough!!
  • @deedeemann8417
    I recently had to say goodbye to someone I loved because I felt staying would be wrong. You can love someone but leave for your own peace of mind!
  • @MatthewBreda
    I left my ex husband four years ago and I love him and miss him but it was the best decision I made for me and my children. He was abusing me mentally and it was very toxic.
  • I’ve realized that when someone says “I love you” I use to doubt it. But I’ve realized they do, it’s just not my definition of love and I don’t want to accept or live by or live in their definition
  • @soilofk
    Loving your biological family no matter what is a myth and an emotional manipulation tool that some parents (family) use to control their children....letting go to toxic family members is the best gift you can give yourself.
  • I disconnected from my own abusive ,dysfunctional family when I was only 17....I am now 56. This video is such a huge confirmation in what I have done and have been doing for years. Thanks.
  • @adrienw.7270
    “You can miss a person everyday and still be glad that they are NoLonger in your life”.... Powerful and True.
  • Family, friendship and love are all determined by honesty, respect and sincerity not always by blood.
  • I moved away from my dysfunctional family 3 years ago and haven't regretted it since. They STILL talk about me. But I don't care. I'm free!!!!
  • There’s a difference between love and neglect, you can still be loved but deeply neglected.
  • @marialewis6432
    I've learned that we do not MISS the people, we miss what they should feel for us. Love is defined differently by everyone and if they do not CHOOSE us, then we have no choice but to move on.
  • Acts speak louder than words. And we know how much people truly love for you by the way they treat you.