Psychologists say people who were constantly criticized as kids don't grow up tougher—they carry these 8 patterns that quietly follow them into every adult relationship

I didn’t realize how much of my inner life had been organized around avoiding criticism until I was well into adulthood. It showed up in small ways at first. The way I’d over-explain myself in emails, adding clause after clause as though defending myself against an objection that hadn’t arrived yet. The way a certain […]