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198: Why We Become "Too Nice" When We Like Someone (And What To Do About It)

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

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I Like This Person. I Just Really Want This Person

There's something about someone that immediately just made you think, I like this person. This person's really attractive. And the two things kind of become they they become linked up so they don't no longer feel separate. When someone becomes important to us in that way, or to some need we're trying to meet, the stakes suddenly become very high. Now we want to perform perfectly because we don't want to do anything that could scare this person away. That's where the problems arise when we start putting someone on a pedestal in this way.

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