It's like eating food with just a little bit of arsenic on it. You feel like your needs are getting met, especially if you're worried about starving, but you're also slowly dying.

Some people spend so much time and energy trying to manage others' reactions or even potential reactions that they create the very drama they fear!

In their desperate desire to paint a reality that keeps others content, they end up creating a web of half-truths and whispered promises, while their own truth remains hidden in the shadows.