People pleasing will either kill you or make you wish you were dead. It creeps up on you quick because we are taught early to be kind and helpful to our fellow man. Parents taught us to share our toys with other children for the obvious reasons.
My upbringing was no different, but somewhere along the way I crossed the line, confusing kindness with codependency. Codependency is a coping mechanism for the “I am not enough” syndrome. Do you know anyone goes out of their way to do stuff for people even when those same people are perfectly capable of doing stuff for themselves?
