how do the Beauty and the Beast lyrics go again oh yes a tale as old as time
for years this Walt Disney classic has been teaching young people that you
could find somebody broken get with them and through your love and devotion you
can change them and find the amazing person that's inside but how true is
this using a more modern reference kind of but now really let's look at she's
all that this story of a young Freddie Prinze jr. who's the jock big big man on
campus and he takes a back to turn young
Rachael Leigh Cook this little nerdy girl into the prom queen but through
this experience he turns into this amazing good-hearted man who falls in
love with Rachael Leigh Cook but the reality is is that this doesn't happen
and usually it happens a little more like this so in this video we're gonna
talk about why you need to quit dating broken people what's up everybody this
is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution and if you are new here my channel is all about helping people who
struggle with mental or emotional difficulties I also do some stuff on
addiction recovery but today we are talking about why you yes you need to
quit dating broken people much like I said in the intro this is something that
so many people do and it's something that we've kind of been trained to
believe we can do since we were very very young I use examples of Beauty and
the Beast and she's all that but fun fact about Chris I actually am a huge
fan of romantic comedies I just am don't know why but anyways
growing up I was watching these movies or TV shows about how you can date
somebody and you can change them and the reality is is that a lot of times we
can't what you need to realize is people are very set in their ways now
this is somewhat contradictory to other videos I've done about neuroplasticity
we all have the ability to change but getting somebody to change on their own
is one of the most difficult things that you can do and what happens is we end up
getting into a lot of very very toxic relationships we find somebody who's
broken and I think on a subconscious level we think that we're going to get
this huge achievement in relationships when we date the bad boy or the broken
girl and we love them so much that they ended up turning into what the Beast
turned into this amazing Prince Charming but that often doesn't happen and the
problem is and you might be able to relate to this we stay in these
relationships way past their expiration date we stick around and we're like no
no no once they change I know everything will be fine and the lie that we tell
ourselves is that we cling on to these very small very miniscule instances
where this person did something kind or they did something for us they did
something that was very out of character and we cling to this idea of if they
could just do that more then it would be the perfect person but the problem is a
lot of times that doesn't happen now I know I'm gonna get a lot of backlash for
this video and I will be making a follow-up video for this so please make
sure that you subscribe and hit the notification bell because there's a lot
of broken people out there probably wondering like Chris you're saying that
I'm broken and and I shouldn't date anybody that's not what I'm saying what
I'm saying is it is not your responsibility to fix anybody I am
coming from a place where I did nothing but date broken women my entire life a
lot of it stemmed from my childhood on a psychological level I am the child of an
alcoholic mother I could never fix her so I was always trying to look for women
that I could fix but in order to fix something you have
to find something that's broken the problem was I spent years and years and
years dating people who had emotional baggage mental health issues childhood
trauma and I was going to be the one who saved them and showed them that some men
are good and not everybody out there is terrible and I can help fix you but the
problem was is that I dated these women for so long that it eventually it took
its toll on my own mental and emotional well-being the problem with this too is
is that we purposely date these people who are broken thinking that we can fix
them and then we don't eventually maybe it happens in a few months but most the
time it takes a year or two years of us just being drug through the mud before
we finally end things whether it's from them or from us and then we start
getting into that self-pity mindset we start thinking oh I'm never gonna find
love or all men or all women are just terrible and why can't I just find the
right person the reality is is that we're never going to find the right
person if we keep looking for a fixer-upper I know that there's a lot of
very good well natured people out there and you find that that it's your duty to
fix people who need help but this isn't your responsibility and take it from me
the whole reason I made this youtube channel or the reason I work at a drug
and alcohol treatment center that also specializes in mental illness is because
I love helping people and helping them overcome their difficulties but this is
a job that I am paid to do when it comes to my emotional and my personal life
that's not something that I have the energy or the emotional capacity to do
on a regular basis and the reality is a lot of you don't either but sometimes
what we do is we lie to ourselves we say I can deal with this I can tolerate this
I can I can work with this right and typically we can during that honeymoon
right the first month or two months were like oh she just has some quirks she
likes to you know trash my room or slit my tires but it's just cute you know
things like that or women out there you like dating the bad boy you know and at
first is kind of fun it's a little exciting and things like that but after
a couple months with that honeymoon phase is over when the dopamine isn't
firing as much as in your brain you start becoming miserable because this
person is not changing this is something I try to teach people all the time like
don't make it your job in relationships to find people you have to fix if you
want to fix something become a car mechanic become a plumber he'll go build
LEGO sets and break them and put them back together that's where you can get
your fixer-upper your energy out it's not meant to be
with people so I am in the healthiest relationship I've ever been in with my
wonderful girlfriend we're coming up on a year together and she's one of the
first women that I've dated where she didn't need any work she was just fine
the way she was and this a little bit ago in a video I did a few months ago so
make sure you're checking out the info card the the video was kind of like why
I love crazy women and I used to have this idea that women who had their their
stuff together they were boring and I need somebody more feisty and stuff like
that but the reality was was the more I chased these type of types of women the
more problems I was having and the more emotional and mental issues I was having
it made me turn to drugs and alcohol even more so now you know I'm with
somebody who doesn't need any work and that's fine that's okay but we really
need to start looking at ourselves and saying why am i chasing these people who
need to be fixed as I mentioned make sure you subscribe to my channel if you
haven't yet hit that little notification bell because I'm not saying that broken
people are going to stay broken forever I'm not
saying that at all but you have to realize that they are not in a mental or
emotional state to date anybody they cannot give you what you need you need
love you need affection you need attention you need all of these things
and when you're constantly giving it and not receiving it you start building
resentments towards this person we all have almost like a fuel tank of how much
we can deal with and it's completely full in the beginning that's why a lot
of us get into these bad relationships with broken people because we think we
can handle it when that fuel tank is completely filled it's easy but after
months years of going through this is draining and draining and draining and
now you're just stuck in this relationship so if you found out that
you are someone who also dates broken people I highly recommend that you start
working on yourself you start analyzing yourself through some of the methods
that I've presented on the other videos on this channel analyze yourself say
where does this need to fix people come from like I mentioned mine came from
being the son of an alcoholic mother yours might come from somewhere else a
lot of ways to do this is through therapy through meditation through
12-step programs whatever it is you have to get down to that underlying issue
something I will be making future videos on is codependency a lot of people have
codependency but codependency is on this spectrum so why you not be may not be on
the severe end of it you may have some of those traits that makes you hunt out
and seek these people who need to be fixed because you find these people so
you feel needed if you feel needed that you have to
provide for them whether it's financially mentally emotionally
whatever it is that's an issue alright so I really want you to take a step back
and look at this and ask yourself why am i dating broken people why do I keep
looking for this type of person once you can start realizing that a figuring that
thing out you'll start to notice that your relationships get a whole lot
better alright anyways I hope this video helped you out
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