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Intimacy Starts When You Stop Trying to Fix Everything

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Intimacy Starts When You Stop Trying to Fix Everything

Don't let the neurotic pigeon drive the bus.

Heather Havrilesky
Feb 27, 2023
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Intimacy Starts When You Stop Trying to Fix Everything

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Untitled (May Planet) (1969) by Helen Lundeberg

You might believe that taking responsibility for someone else’s emotional state makes you a good person – generous, thoughtful, considerate. But if you’re obsessive, anxious, avoidant, haunted by guilt, an overachiever, or an overthinker, then the state of mind you see as responsible or honorable might be e…

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