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When People Pleasing is Really About Controlling People’s Emotions

When People Pleasing is Really About Controlling People’s Emotions

I thought people-pleasing, by definition, was a selfless quality.  Granted, people-pleasing isn’t for the faint of heart.  It requires exhausting over-thinking, painstaking anticipation of emotional responses BEFORE they occur, and the compromising flexibility of a contortionist to bend into whatever agreeable shape is needed in