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How to Stop Trying to Fix Everyone You Love

My partner says I am always trying to fix them when they just want to be heard but I genuinely cannot figure out how to just listen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The helper identity has become a way of avoiding one's own discomfort with others' pain, preventing authentic presence.

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