Hi everybody and welcome to Coaches Corner. It has been a while since I've answered

listeners written in questions so I thought I dig into some of those today. I've got three questions to answer from

listeners. They have to do with relationships and friendships, toxic friendships, and

dating. So let me go ahead and dive in and by the way if you have a question or you want to be added to the wait list

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Christine Hassler.com put in the subject line question for the podcast and I'll put it in the

queue okay so first question we have is from Justin.

Justin says, I've noticed a pattern where I keep falling in love with my friends and wanting to intensify the relationships I have with them. I know they aren't

genuine emotions since I feel that way about many of my friends. There's a pattern here and usually

those feelings can change from person to person very easily.

Regardless, this has affected my ability

to sustain friendships.

I can make them very easily.

However, I can't seem to keep them as friends

because I end up beginning romantic relationships.

This has dramatically and negatively affected my self-esteem.

I know that on one hand this is due to a people-pleasing habit I developed

due to the complicated relationship I have with my mother.

I've actively worked on myself and with her,

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