Echoism, to be an “Echoist” in a relationship, just came across this term tonight... wow...
Anyone ever read about this, thoughts?
Seems to go right along with “caregiver”, codependency... perhaps also ‘enabling’...
The more I read, the more it makes a lot of sense, I CERTAINLY have done this...’for years’... decades in fact.
(Exert)- “
Echoism is a trait, not a disorder, and it’s best thought of as a survival strategy: “If I want to be safe and loved, I need to make sure I ask as little from people as possible (and give as much as I can).” Echoists learn, growing up, that they can’t turn to people when they're sad or scared or lonely and trust that people will soothe them (a problem called attachment insecurity), so they bury their needs in the hopes that they’ll be accepted and loved, because they demand so little.“
I provide a link below, to describe better what I’m reading,
Red5
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/romance-redux/201809/what-makes-person-echoist%3famp
