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Is Your Relationship Stunting Your Emotional Growth?

December 14th, 2011 - By Julia Austin
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"Happy young couple"

The scariest thing about being in a state of arrested development is that we can rarely see when we’re in it. Want to know why? Because it feels good. Because being allowed—even encouraged—to stay just where you are, not to grow, change, learn or push yourself feels good. They are called growing pains for a reason. And a little part of all of us wishes we could just opt out of those pains. And some of us do, by staying in relationships like these:

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