"When you’re a people-pleaser, you unconsciously wear a facade of niceness that hides your true feelings from your family, colleagues, friends, lovers."
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You can please some of the people all of the time,
you can please all of the people some of the time, but
you can’t please all the people all of the time Abraham Lincoln
People pleasing sounds like it should be a good thing; an earnest pursuit; but actually it’s a behavioural kink formed in childhood, occurring when a child becomes overly compliant in meeting their parent’s needs, in order to gain love, approval, and acceptance.