You matter too and you are not a dumping ground! If they spend more than 45 minutes talking only about themselves and you still haven’t been able to respond or reply to anything they’re saying, run!!! It is more than likely that this person is using you as an emotional dumping ground.
You can’t hand them a blank check, you can’t let them take your emotions. And most importantly, you can’t be their emotional dumping ground. We all make choices in our lives. That’s the thing about a choice, there’s no guarantee how that choice is going to work out.
You can be a good partner or parent or sibling or child without being a therapist. You are not required (nor qualified, in most cases) to be anyone else’s therapist or emotional dumping ground, and you can, with kindness and compassion, often find a way to maintain a relationship with this person without sacrificing your own emotional health.
Emotional Dumping: What Is Emotional Dumping ? By Oliver JR Cooper. … When it comes to the person who is often on the receiving end of this dumping , they may not realise that they are separate from others. Deep down, they may believe that they are an extension of others. Awareness.
