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How to stop being a people pleaser ?
We are the people pleasers: warm, empathetic, non-judgmental, and helpful. We can read others and adapt—if needed by defusing tension even before it arises. We make everything easy for others. We make everything work. Being in a relationship with us is smooth, effortless, and pleasant. It can take a while before we realize the price…
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Book review : You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For, from Richard Schwartz
Your Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For is one of these books : explaining our relationships don’t work because what we sometimes call falling in love is projecting all our hopes of being repaired, saved, and completely validated by someone else. And that our hope is misplaced. There are other books like this. I…