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Don't Play Nice Guy

6 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains how playing the nice guy backfires: ignoring your own needs builds resentment, which leaks out as passive-aggression or anger, turning you into a boundary crosser anyway.

Trying to play nice guy will actually set you up to be a major boundary crosser. Because when you play nice guy, usually what that means is you're not doing a good job of getting your own needs met. And then you build up resentments and you build up attitude. And when that negative energy goes out, whether it's in little tiny passive aggressive statements or big explosions of anger, when that happens, you're going to be the boundary crosser and the time you're going to feel justified in it. But two wrongs don't make a right.

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