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How to Stop Being a Compulsive Fixer in Relationships

Every time my girlfriend cries I feel this overwhelming urge to fix it immediately and I think it's making everything worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discomfort with another's pain becomes so intense that rushing to solutions bypasses the healing that lives in being witnessed.

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