4. You Do Things You Don’t Want to Do
Have you been coming home from a night out with friends wishing you had not gone out at all? Those things are bound to happen from time to time, but if you find yourself in that situation on a regular basis, it may be because you are putting yourself out too much to please other people. One danger of this type of behavior is creating false expectations. If you agree to go to the opera with a friend just to please that person even if you hate the opera, that person will probably end up thinking you enjoy it as much as they do and expect that you will become a dependable companion for those kinds of events. Then there’s the fact that you are just miserable doing things you really don’t enjoy or even really hate, and that can make you pretty miserable.