If you did not get much emotionally from EI parents in childhood, you might be too willing to put a lot of one-sided effort into your adult relationships. You may not be happy, but you may feel you should take whatever’s offered. Your job now is to question any one-sided relationship and look for something more satisfying. As you work at lowering your expectations for the EIPs and EI parents in your life, you should simultaneously raise your expectations in order to find friends and partners who put as much effort into reciprocal, empathetic relationships as you do.
