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Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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Are You Trying to Get Someone to Take Care of Me for Life?

We can often resent the people we need. Need is i want to get something from you to manage me, and i'll think you're awesome for it. That's still different then i can't manage myself. So will you take care of me for life, and we'll call it love? It's an easy way to try to mitigate the vulnerability of really letting somebody in on who you are. And so your capacity for intimacy is a very link to your ability to sustain yourself psychologically.

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