Starting from this generative question and I must admit that I had a hard time deciding between the 5 questions Mr. @galenkp...
Thank you, thank you for making us self-evaluate.
My mother always said that I was very independent that I never waited for anyone to be or do...and yes really it has always been like that, my family raised me very independent on the one hand to make decisions and do my homework, to comply with the established rules although I was also rebellious for several years.
I graduated on time and studied other things, from a very early age I worked since I was 16 or 17 years old, that allowed me to work and the truth was the best thing I could do because from there was that my total independence began.
I no longer depended 100% on an uncle who was the one who decided to help me with my studies, besides rewarding me for my good grades. With that I also helped my mother who had great responsibility on her own.
Time went by and between work, study and travel, the years went by but also family burdens and responsibilities. It seems incredible but people look at you as if you could handle everything.
And maybe so, but all that weighs on you.
My mother always made the mistake that: "Mothers are friends of daughters" that is a mistake that few understand but you have to be very mature to sustain your position. So I had to live and act in circumstances or moments as a mother and not as a daughter. That made me mature faster than it is usual and evidently my mother always counted on me.
My grandparents were always looking for me to act as a referee in a dispute, so that both sides would come out with their decisions and points of view respected. Let's say that they put me in the balance to maintain a balance between the people involved (my grandmother is not easy at all and he always wanted to make her understand "things") and guess who they put in the middle?
ME...
I really have a very difficult family, that has also made me MORE INDEPENDENT every day.....
In relationships with friends or partners ZERO dependent.....
THE OPPOSITE ALWAYS.
With my friends they always call me and depend on whether I agree or not. Always taking my point of view in the best way.
I have very valuable friendships and they value me in the same way, they look for me and take care of me without any interest. And with partners it has been the same with me, I have always been unconditional support without being dependent on people.
But trying to let each of the people in my life know that they can NOT depend on others to make decisions, to eat, to exercise or do anything important.
This has affected my life in a personal way because I take other people's problems, anxieties and feelings as if they were my own. Then I recharge myself with bad energies, bad situations and things that I have not really had to live in my own flesh, but with the people I love and respect in life?
I learned that I must let go of things that do not correspond to me. The bag I have to carry on my back is full enough with my own problems to absorb the external ones as well.
Sometimes the family is the one that recharges you the most with uncomfortable situations.....
This post helped me to drain and detox!
I took these pictures that although they are not the most beautiful ones, they show how I felt while I was writing on my cell phone, because if they were my own they would have extra points...
I hope you liked them!