A people pleaser’s fixation on not being a burden wears on her close friends, and one wonders whether to tell her.

I spent most of my childhood running around trying to keep everyone happy. As the middle child in a close-knit family just ...

It wasn’t until I was well into my adult years that I realized how much this tendency had shaped certain habits in my ...

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But then Steve came along and there was a magnetic attraction of opposites. She was an organised people-pleaser and he was spiky, anarchic and brutally honest. When their first child, Rafferty ...

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