Welcome to Love and Abuse Insights. This is an addendum to the regular show that you'll find scattered in between full episodes.

On Insights, I pick random emails that I haven't addressed yet and do my best to provide my insights and opinions.

Everything you hear on this show is for informational purposes only. Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being.

Okay, welcome to the second episode of insights, love and abuse insights.

Like I said, in the first episode, it's pretty raw, so I'm just going to get right to the email.

And going forward, when you listen to these episodes, I'll probably just start reading the emails.

And again, this is an addendum show to love and

abuse. And I'm going to have these probably quite often because I get a lot of emails. Good to

connect with you. I'm going to go right into this. I'm actually going to read just the last part of

this email. It's a little long. So I'm going to get to the important parts.

This person wrote, I'm just going to call her J, because I tried to respond to her through email,

and I could not reach her through email.

For some reason, the email didn't work.

She said, what did she say?

I become desperate to show him, I can be better.

I guess we both made the relationship toxic.

I'm not trying to excuse my behavior.

I'm just wondering if an anxious person like me could possibly become worse in this type of environment.

As I become more involved with him, or as I became more involved with him, it became harder for me to stand my ground.

And I would just find myself doing anything to have him not upset with him. It became harder for me to stand my ground and I would just find

myself doing anything to have him not upset with me. I heard in some podcasts that people

pleasers will attract these type of people. Yes. So I didn't read you the whole thing so you

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