None of your business
I have struggled my entire life with people pleasing. Now, this is a loaded statement, so I'll break it down in parts and lead to where I ended up at the end. It was a long journey but Im finally at a place where I feel at peace. First let me say, my entire life I've been labeled as selfish, spoiled, a brat and ungrateful. This started as far back as I can remember and it defined my desperation to " make people like me" and "walk on egg shells". It's not a good feeling, thinking everyone thinks negatively about you all the time. What I found, after looking back and analyzing the reasons was this. 1. My Dad didnt neglect me and people resented it because of their own experience with being neglected He worked full time, took care of me, my mother and my Grandmother ( his Mom) for years. My parents had me relatively early in life, Mom at 20 and Dad at 25 and honestly, I couldn't have done it at that age. The problem was, all of my parents friends ei...