Broken Picker Syndrome and more crin's worthy dating stories. My name is Andrea and this is

Adult Child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what you're holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to Adult Child,

where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

And today we are diving deep into one of the most common symptoms of being an adult child, Broken Picker Syndrome. BPS. Not to be confused

with IBS, although BPS does have some of the same symptoms, constipation,

abdominal pain, diarrhea, all that fun stuff.

Now I'm going to read a few statements

and I want you to see if any of these are applicable to you.

You date the same type of person over and over.

For example, alcoholics, narcissists, workaholics, cheaters, people who are physically, verbally, or emotionally abusive.

You literally date the same person over and over.

You stay in the same toxic relationship with the same toxic person.

You fall in love with someone's potential and not who they actually are.

You get into relationships that get super serious right out of the gate

and then crash and burn quickly.

You stay in a relationship with someone who treats you poorly or does not meet your emotional needs in hopes that one day this will change.

You date someone with a track record of commitment issues or someone who flat out says they never want to get married in hopes that one day

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