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When Someone Uses You as Their Emotional Dumping Ground

My friend keeps venting to me about the same problems but never takes any advice and I am starting to dread her calls.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Relationships can become imbalanced when one person habitually discharges emotion while the other absorbs it without reciprocal support.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Emotional intelligence and co-regulation?”

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