Public and Private Protocols for Your 'Plus One' This can be endearing as well as inspiring, like the couple who has been married 50 years and still interact with loving kindness and genuine affection.
This arguably unhealthy self-view as "less than" on their own may account for viewing every invitation as a two-for-one. Although the research by Daire et al. addresses aiding clients in understanding and changing maladaptive patterns of behavior, many of us have friends and colleagues who are not formally addressing codependency issues, which sometimes are manifest publicly in social settings.