Why Do I Attract People Pleasers? 10 Coaching Practices to Try

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Practices that may help

1. Cultivate identity-safe relationships
   Build relationships in which being known accurately — not just approved of — is the norm.
   Self-Verification Theory, Made Practical
2. Understand why you’re attracted to someone opposite -- without pathologizing it
   The initial attraction in the anxious-avoidant pairing is genuine; understanding what drove it prevents repetition.
   The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Why Opposites Attract and Then Struggle
3. Apply anti-goals to relationships and collaborators
   Naming the relational patterns you refuse to accept prevents you from optimising for the wrong things in who you work or live with.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
4. Correct placating by surfacing your real position
   When you’ve agreed to avoid conflict, go back and name what you actually think.
   The Satir Model
5. Be a good listener; encourage others to talk about themselves
   Most people would rather have a great listener than a great talker.
   How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical
6. Agreeableness and the cost of suppressing or over-expressing it
   High agreeableness predicts relationship quality but can cost you in advocacy and honest feedback; know your default and its risks.
   The Big Five Personality Model
7. Check your motivation before the act
   Notice whether you’re acting from genuine care or from obligation — the emotion behind the act shapes the benefit you receive.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
8. Build a credibility foundation before showing vulnerability
   The pratfall effect only works if people already perceive you as competent — so earn that first.
   The Pratfall Effect, Made Practical
9. Accommodating (cooperative, unassertive)
   Yield to the other’s needs when the issue matters far more to them than to you.
   The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
10. Liking
    We say yes to people we like — and similarity, compliments, and cooperation grow liking.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I notice I’m drawn to people who confirm the worst about me and uneasy around the ones who think well of me→
• I keep falling for the same kind of person and ending up in the same painful place, and I’m torn between deciding I just chose wrong again and wondering what I was actually reaching for in them that I’ve never quite named.→
• I keep getting dazzled by how brilliant or charming someone is and signing up to work or partner with them, and then the exact same painful pattern I’ve been burned by before→
• I catch myself nodding and saying "sure, whatever works" when inside I completely disagree→
• I dominate conversations without meaning to→

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