Hi-
I do not know what this type of behaviot would be named , and I wonder if anyone else experiences it.?.
It is difficult for me to accept presents/gifts. I am always looking for a hidden agenda from the giver...OR when will this kind gesture be thrown back into my face...I am at the point I open gifts, ask that they be returned & let the people keep the money/credir card...Or of that is not an option, the item sits, unused. Even the obtaining of a cell phone w/ my BF is an issue. He wanted to upgrade the phones on his plan, that he pays for, for months I have wanted the new iPhone,we go to the store, I cannot decide, and then I say I do not want a phone. Any phone-->which he pays for.I feel he will throw it up in my face that he is paying the monthly fee (I am not working now)...Will he really? Maybe, maybe not. Have I "earned" the phone by helping him do things? Several times over. This issue has caused too much anxiety, energy, effort.
Do I act this way because "things from my childhood were thrown at me" to deflect the truth? The neglect? The emotional abuse? Sometimes I go to the extreme end of bring my own toilet paper & beverages. I guess I think someone is always keeping a giant score card on me....This is not a healthy way to act.
Any thoughts?
I do not know what this type of behaviot would be named , and I wonder if anyone else experiences it.?.
It is difficult for me to accept presents/gifts. I am always looking for a hidden agenda from the giver...OR when will this kind gesture be thrown back into my face...I am at the point I open gifts, ask that they be returned & let the people keep the money/credir card...Or of that is not an option, the item sits, unused. Even the obtaining of a cell phone w/ my BF is an issue. He wanted to upgrade the phones on his plan, that he pays for, for months I have wanted the new iPhone,we go to the store, I cannot decide, and then I say I do not want a phone. Any phone-->which he pays for.I feel he will throw it up in my face that he is paying the monthly fee (I am not working now)...Will he really? Maybe, maybe not. Have I "earned" the phone by helping him do things? Several times over. This issue has caused too much anxiety, energy, effort.
Do I act this way because "things from my childhood were thrown at me" to deflect the truth? The neglect? The emotional abuse? Sometimes I go to the extreme end of bring my own toilet paper & beverages. I guess I think someone is always keeping a giant score card on me....This is not a healthy way to act.
Any thoughts?