Dr. Wayne Pernell explains how over-giving in relationships backfires. When you constantly adjust everything for someone else, you smother their autonomy and provoke pushback. Respecting each person's personal space is essential for relationships to work.
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I want to share them so that we don't have a threshold event. One of the things I want to offer this nugget because one of the things that I talk about in choosing your power is the idea of relationships. And, you know, there's there are there are givers out there that are so much in the give that they end up smothering, and they don't know why the other person is pushing back so hard. And it's because, look, we operate in this space where we have our own personal spaces. We have our own. And if you're the person that cares so much, and you're just going to adjust this for them and make that right for them and do this for them and do that for them and do this, there's no room for them. So you will get pushback. And, you know, there are the most caring people that can understand why they can't connect with people.