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When people-pleasing erases your own desires

My therapist asked what I want and I realized I've spent so long figuring out what everyone else wants that I've forgotten I'm allowed to want things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've become so fluent in other people's languages that you've forgotten how to speak your own.

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