Unhealthy social/relationship expectations often swing to extremes of total self-sacrifice or total self-prioritization, neither of which sustains connection.  How do we break the cycle?
 
A Guide to Healthier Relationships walks through three steps- releasing fear, seeing through manipulation and false kindness, and learning to balance your energy- as first steps to unlearning harmful, yet normalized patterns of relating anf interacting, and beginning the process of learning healthier ways of being.