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Everyone Is a Huge Baby - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth

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We're living in a crisis of agency, externalization and projection.

The worst relationship I ever had involved a man who was fond of telling me about how much he was working on himself. It was constant. Every day included lengthy discussions of emotions, namely his, of processing my actions and how they affected him. When I would attempt to assert my independence—say, suggest I might go on a friend trip without him—he wouldn’t get mad. Instead, he would cry. He would say that my choice hurt him, that I wasn’t considering his feelings enough. I had never heard someone talk this way before, but it sounded emotionally correct and authoritative. It seemed…

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