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Why fantasy hurts your ability to form REAL relationships

The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

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The Importance of Being a Tough Teacher and Mirror

Olivia: I feel that he's been a really tough teacher and mirror for me to see where I'm not well, especially in terms of codependency and extreme people pleasing. He has no compunction at all about having somebody he was sleeping with, would sleep with now and a new girlfriend all in the same space. This is not teaching you anything. It's sucking the soul out of you. You're fawning. That's a trauma reaction. And you're sacrificing any opportunity to care for yourself and take care of your own life and be fulfilled and heal yourself to try to make it feel okay for him to do whatever he's doing. Olivia: So long as

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