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When self-sacrifice teaches others to be selfish

I have been putting everyone else's needs first for so long that my children think my only purpose is to serve them and I do not know how to change that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complete erasure of our own needs can create children who never learn that other people are fully human too.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Unintended legacy — what we leave without meaning to?”

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