A connection style from What's Your Connection Style?
The Fixer
You are most comfortable when someone needs you. Not because you're controlling, but because solving problems is how you show love, and also how you stay safe. If you're focused on someone else's situation, you don't have to sit with your own.
What hides underneath
Stillness is uncomfortable. When someone you love is struggling and there's nothing to fix, that feeling becomes unbearable. You sometimes step in before you're asked because waiting feels like failing.
Your real strength
You are resourceful, loyal, and genuinely motivated by care, not control. When you let relationships be messy and unresolved without rushing to repair them, something more honest has room to grow.
Three journal prompts for The Fixer
- Think of a time you jumped to solving when someone only wanted to be heard. What were you feeling underneath?
- What would it feel like to sit with a problem you can't fix?
- Who fixed things for you growing up, or who didn't?
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