Category Archive

Emotional abuser / besieger / surround and wear down others with your position

Nurturing / there for others

Deep / intimate / needs get met / constant and consistent

Have to deny your own needs

Depleted / deny your own needs

Enlivened / encouraged to live your own life

Unselfish

Selfish

Beleaguered / surrounded and worn down / besieged

Buoyant / alive

Get to have a relationship

On your own

Pre-emptive self-defensive strike

Wait for clarity

Never get hurt

Risk injury

Used on account of your own competence

Respected for your ability and character

Recognized

Envied

A device to use for ill

A person with intrinsic value

A way to get off the hook

Forced to defer to this person’s needs

Envious

Happy for others’ happiness

Knowing your self-worth

Denying yourself

Engaged with life

Shoot yourself in the foot

Give up your position

Maintain your position

Commiserate and seek allies

Indifferent / callous to others’ suffering / do not understand

Drowning with others

Let others have their own experience

Selfish and cruel

Selfless and giving

Living your life and taking care of yourself

Have no life