While there are of course always situations in life where one can benefit from external insight into your own behaviour, I feel like the second paragraph you wr

While there are of course always situations in life where one can benefit from external insight into your own behaviour, I feel like the second paragraph you wrote reads a lot like stockholm syndrome to me... Yes, there are those people you don't want to disappoint. But at least in my experience, that doesn't make their intervention attempts less obnoxious. Control freaks are all around, but hidden behind social norms.