6 Ways Over-Giving Disempowers Us And Hurts Our Relationships
Your helping causes you to compromise your integrity.
Your helping causes you to compromise your integrity.
Over the many years I have spent on my personal growth and healing, boundaries have been one of the more challenging areas of life for me. I realize that they are the rite of passage into adulthood because, without them, we turn into children fighting over marbles on the playground.
When I finally developed the courage to end an addictive and painful relationship, I had to live with the effects of lack of self-love.
Altruism is wonderful, but it should never come with a price tag that marks down our happiness, joy, independence, and self-respect.
There was an undertone of entitlement in my wishes. They sounded more like demands than requests or desires.