The Negative Effects of Caretaking

"You don't get married to fix people. You have to accept them for who they are," she says. "If it becomes ingrained early in our only value is helping everyone else, we learn to survive and we need to make sure to take care of ourselves" Narcissists feel powerless in their own lives trying to fix other people 'and that provides some semblance of control' The opposite of helping caretakers may find themselves subconsciously manipulating people to depend on them,. In that introspection you got to look in the mirror and ask yourself: What am I doing?