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"Learning discernment is vital - not just in terms of the choices we make about who to trust, but also in terms of our perspective, our attitudes. We learned about life as children and it is necessary to change the way we intellectually view life in order to stop being the victim of the old tapes. By looking at, becoming conscious of, our attitudes, definitions, and perspectives, we can start discerning what works for us and what does not work. We can then start making choices about whether our intellectual view of life is serving us - or if it is setting us up to be victims because we are expecting life to be something which it is not."
"I spent most of my life being the victim of my own thoughts, my own emotions, my own behaviors. I was consistently picking untrustworthy people to trust and unavailable people to love."
"If you have a problem with romantic relationships maybe it is because your fifteen-year-old is picking your mates for you."
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Robert Burney.
I found this
article very revealing, not only from a standpoint of romantic relationships I had early on and later with my wife, but also from the angle of how I approached situations everywhere with a victim mentality. I'm just starting to understand this
inner child wounds from the past concept.