18 Habits from Childhood That Affect Our Relationships Now
The patterns we learn and working around them is part of a fresh new approach to couples therapy. Which schemas sound like you?
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Insufficient Self-Control
Those who lack self-discipline and want to quit a task at the first sign of frustration or failure. (People with milder forms of this schema will give up personal satisfaction or fulfillment in order to avoid conflict or confrontation; could be described as a slacker.)
From the
September 2007 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
