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When Being Liked Trumps Being Yourself

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Joe Gibson
Nov 19, 2024
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When Being Liked Trumps Being Yourself

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As someone who leans more disorganised attached with anxiously attached tendencies, this desire to get people to like us in order to feel validated can have catastrophic impacts on how we show up in dating and the subsequent relationships that may come from them (if we get that far).

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