Signs You Let Other People’s Problems Affect You Too Much

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If you are a compassionate and generous person, the emotional vultures will always find you. They’ll start to circle above you, just looking for an opportunity to swoop down and gobble up your time and energy. Finding happiness in life will involve doing the constant and ever-delicate dance of being there for those you love, without giving so much of yourself that you neglect yourself. We naturally must be there for each other. Humans are social creatures and society is crucial to our survival. That being said, we also need boundaries. Some people have none, and so they’ll always push yours. If you have done the work of taking responsibility for your own emotional wellbeing and the more logistical areas of your life, then you deserve to only have people in your life who have done the same. If you take on people who aren’t helping themselves, you’ll always be running to their rescue. On that note, do you let other people’s problems affect you too much?

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You’re on the phone a lot

Hours are wasted away on the phone every day. That’s because you have a lot of people in your life who call you the second they are stressing out about something, need advice, or need help. If you think of your days, many are spent with your headset in, playing therapist or advisor to somebody, while you go about your other daily tasks.