A fixer stays with broken partners believing they can heal them, mistaking being needed for being loved. The speaker identifies four signs of this pattern and explains why it keeps you trapped in relationships that aren't actually about love.
Pattern loop number three is the fixer. Now, this was me. So I'm going a little bit deeper here because the fixer is attracted to broken people. Not successful people, not emotionally healthy people, but people who are broken. And life has broken them. A situation has broken them. They've just broken all together. They think that they can save them, that they can heal them or even fix them. And they stay years past the expiration date because they have this feeling to where they keep telling themselves that this person, they need me. So here's what fixers don't understand is that that you're confusing being needed with being loved. Here's four signs you're a fixer.
