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2005-04-17 13:12:25 ET
I had an interesting conversation with mine about how people tend to seek out situations they're familiar with, even if those situations draw them to their own self destruction: one grows so accustomed to living in a certain way that the prospect of change is more uncomfortable than the situation they're in, so they keep perpetuating negative cycles because it's what they're 'used' to.
i.e. people who have grown up in abusive households subconsciously seeking out abusive partners because it's what they're used to, and they don't know how to be comfortable with life unless they're dealing with that particular kind of stress: the mere thought that they COULD be happy outside of that scenario is so alien to them as to be almost frightening. |
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