A covert contract is a deal only one person knows they are making.
This is the book's most useful diagnostic: resentment often reveals an unspoken bargain.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
5 memorable lines from No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover, each with the idea behind it.
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Being nice is not the same as being honest.
The page works when it separates warmth from self-erasure.
Approval addiction turns ordinary requests into performances.
Trying to be impossible to reject creates pressure, not intimacy.
Boundaries are cleaner than resentment.
A direct no is usually kinder than a yes that quietly invoices the other person.
Recovery means becoming integrated, not becoming harsh.
The goal is not cruelty or dominance. It is congruence.
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