Originally Posted By: kate's_place
For sure. If you have a history of giving in, then people like me (or the old me) smell it immediately.

Don't let us (or them, I guess) wear you down with it. It's the favourite strategy.


Oh R you make me smile and chuckle a lot, thanks...

Originally Posted By: labug
The basic reason is you don't want to stand for yourself because then someone may not like you. You don't feel worthy.

I've had to learn to say no and the more you do it the easier it gets.


Interesting thought here, it's not so much anyone it's people I like and call friend. Fear of rejection if someone does not "like" me perhaps. Low self worth= you don't feel worthy. I'm changing the way I look at myself.


You can not change your past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.