“...Letting go is all about reality. Rather than deluding ourselves by making ourselves believe we have all kinds of powers we don’t have, letting go is about facing the facts. We don’t have the power to change other people. We don’t have the power to fix other people. We can’t influence them to change—we have no power to do that. If they change and later tell us that something we said or did impacted them, it was because they chose to allow the impact to make a difference. They could have dismissed it, just like they have dismissed the million other attempts we have made to make them change....”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201605/how-let-it-go
