Dear Jack:

I can understand the need to compromise in a work situation (your other post, Jack)- if there is no other visible source of income that is more palatable. In other words, if someone is paying my bills, I see a reason to compromise, or in other live-or-die/ emergency situations. But why compromise with strangers whom I do not need? This is what boggles my mind, my pet peeve about people who try to be liked by what i call people-of-no-consequence. People who sacrifice their persons and their lives so to be approved by a parent (who never will anyway) when the pleasers are not in actuality dependent any longer on the parent. And then there is the trying to people-please just about anyone. Why?

By the way, in this post of mine I am talking to myself, really, so it is between me and me but I hope there is some value in it to someone else. Maybe.
anita