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When rescuing others becomes compulsive after childhood helplessness

I keep trying to save other people the way no one saved me as a kid, and it is destroying my marriage but I cannot seem to stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The powerlessness experienced in childhood creates an adult compulsion to save others that can consume one's capacity for intimate relationships.

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