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🚙 Driving without a GPS: When making your own choices feels unsafe

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Related Childhood Experiences

People with this dating style often experienced these childhood situations:

Abusive parentBeing a "golden child"Chronic manipulationCritical parentEmotional abuseGaslightingInvalidating parentManipulative parentNagging parentPunishing parentRejecting parents or familyScolding, verbal abuse, put-downs in the familyShame-based parentingToxic parentToxic parenting

Related Dating Styles

Other patterns that often appear alongside Driving without a GPS:

👁️Blind Spots in Plain Sight
↔️Going to the Opposite Extreme
oppositional wiringgenerational traumapendulum swing
🗣️Guided by Voices from the Past
🫵Hypnotized to Believe You're Damaged Goods
🕯️Living in Ancestral Shadows
intergenerational traumacultural PTSDtransgenerational trauma transmission
🔍Reading Between the Lines