Sublime

Isn’t self-reflective

defensively nonintimate

Conversations mostly centered on my parent’s interests.

The insights in this book will prepare you for that day when pleasing others is just a nice thing to do, freely embarked upon, and not a begging for the goodness that was yours anyway from the beginning.

They unconsciously developed defenses against experiencing many of their deeper feelings.

Has a laissez-faire attitude that all is well

Has impenetrable boundaries

Can be sporadically emotionally intimate

Likes to pretend he or she doesn’t run the show