Trying To Please Unpleasing Parents Can Be Costly

Sometimes saying no is the best thing to do

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People pleasing has been a hot topic on Medium for a while now. I’m not sure if people-pleasing has always been a topic human beings have written (or talked) about. If so, please forgive me for my lateness.

people pleaser: someone who cares a lot about whether other people like them, and always wants others to approve of their actions:

— Cambridge Dictionary

All of the people-pleasing articles I’ve read talk about people-pleasing in a negative light. I don’t believe that we can be 100% free from people pleasing because there will always gonna be people that we want to please in some way.

Like your partner, friends that you admire (and that admire you), family members that you’re tight with, or your supervisor at work.

Out of all the people pleasers we have in the world, I believe children are the most important ones.

Most children want to please their parents and make them proud of them. But the work that they put into satisfying them can become a detriment if they have…