Having the urge to help others can be a wonderful thing – but it can also become a problem. Here, 3 women share their experiences – and a relationship expert explains how to deal with the need to ‘fix’.
and mistakes she made when she was younger. But instead of simply being there for others, she now feels as if she’s “obsessed” with fixing.
“In these kinds of conversations, I tend to ask endless questions so I can understand why that person is the way they are, so while I have the full picture of their situation, they never really know much about me. And when the time finally came to pay attention to my own issues, I couldn’t do so with the same level of enthusiasm that I had for others.
“It stems from having to be parental as a child, and feeling responsible for the adults in my life from a young age,” she explains. “It created a dynamic where I’m always the giver. It becomes toxic if the other person only wants to take.”
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