People pleasing can be a defeating habit in a persons life, simply because the act itself takes your focus off what you CAN control, and puts your focus on to what you CANT control, which is somebody elses happiness and peace of mind. Here is a perfect example to illustrate my point:
If you buy your lover flowers, and they come home to tell you they just received a raise at work the flowers you give them are just going to add to their joy, and you are going to have a wonderful evening.
However, if you buy your lover flowers, and they come home to tell you they just got fired from work they may look at the flowers and give a quick smile just to acknowledge you and quickly go back to sulking or worse, they may be hateful and yell, WHAT GOOD ARE FLOWERS GOING TO DO ME NOW?!?!? ARE THEY HIRING FLORISTS?!?!
Of course, this is common sense but it is a perfect example of why people pleasing doesnt work 100% of the time. You will never be able to predict what kind of mood anyone is going to be in all the time, simply because things will always happen outside of our control. Consequently, your happiness or misery is in the other persons hands, which puts you...