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Post by Freetolive on Feb 27, 2012 4:11:33 GMT -8
People-Pleasers
Have you ever been around people-pleasers? They tend to be displeasing. Being around someone who is turned inside out to please another is often irritating and anxiety- producing.
People-pleasing is a behavior we may have adapted to survive in our family. We may not have been able to get the love and attention we deserved. We may not have been given permission to please ourselves, to trust ourselves, and to choose a course of action that demonstrated self-trust.
People-pleasing can be overt or covert. We may run around fussing over others, chattering a mile a minute when what we are really saying is, "I hope I'm pleasing you." Or, we may be more covert, quietly going through life making important decisions based on pleasing others.
Taking other people's wants and needs into consideration is an important part of our relationships. We have responsibilities to friends and family and employers. We have a strong inner responsibility to be loving and caring. But, people-pleasing backfires. Not only do others get annoyed with us, we often get annoyed when our efforts to please do not work as we planned. The most comfortable people to be around are those who are considerate of others but ultimately please themselves.
Help me, God, work through my fears and begin to please myself.
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Post by Jacarandagirl on Feb 28, 2012 3:26:03 GMT -8
Thanks Free. How about we make a list of how we people-please? What do we want from people when we people-please? Here's me on the above. How do I people please? 1. I listen really well when people are telling me something and I keep eye-contact with people so that they feel listened to. I ignore my need to look around or adjust myself in my seat, ignore hunger, ignore my time deadlines. I end up feeling trapped by them and want to avoid them in the future. 2. I put up my hand to help people out even when I'm time poor. I become stressed and end up blaming those other people for my stress. 3. I take prompts from people, like last night someone said to me "love you!" as I left the room. I hate saying that kind of thing in a superficial way, but I said it back to them so that I didn't upset the person. I felt like a fraud and resented them for it.
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