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Psychology says people who have spent a lifetime sacrificing their own happiness for others aren’t selfless — they’re running a childhood program that taught them love was something you earned by making yourself smaller, and the hardest part is that it worked

Psychology says people who have spent a lifetime sacrificing their own happiness for others aren’t selfless — they’re running a childhood program that taught them love was something you earned by making yourself smaller, and the hardest part is that it worked

Have you ever looked around at the people in your life who seem to give endlessly, never asking for anything in return, and wondered how they do it? I used to think these people were saints. The friend who drops everything to help others move apartments. The colleague who stays late to finish everyone else’s [...] The post Psychology says people who have spent a lifetime sacrificing their own happiness for others aren’t selfless — they’re running a childhood program that taught them love was something you earned by making yourself smaller, and the hardest part is that it worked appeared first on Space Daily .