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Brendan O'Connor

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5464 total appearances

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Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Yeah.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

So that's our own.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

But there are people who do it as adults as well.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

Yeah, yeah.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

Part of his interior life is, though, that he has started thinking a lot.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

That's right.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

About his parents.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

That's right.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

He's come to this point in his life.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

And often there might be something underlining in there.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

That's right.

Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”

Why did that suggest itself to you?

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

There could be a little bit of ADHD where you have difficulty communicating between what you should share and what you actually share.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

Spontaneous stuff, you know, all that.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

So, yeah, I would say often as kids, we do do that to be accepted.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

And we find ultimately the opposite happens.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

We get rejected.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

And that is the paradigm of the people pleaser, to be honest.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

They try to give all of themselves to somebody who can give all of themselves to anybody.

Brendan O'Connor
Richard Hogan: “Too many feel their boundaries should never be breached”

They try to give all of themselves to somebody.