There is one major thing we’re overlooking when we do things the way our parents did them, or the way society tells us to do them: they’re all just following someone else’s lead, too. And so is that person. Nobody is really in charge here.
I’ve certainly seen how many high school popularity queens go onto being relationship addicts as adults. The have to have some romantic entanglement at any given time. Not having one gives them anxiety. But it also leads them to make poor romantic choices—they choose partners just to have somebody rather than to find that one person.
Is your toddler doing the most or is it just you?