So what happens when a chronic approval-seeker awakens? What would he do to the people who have taken advantage of his mental disability all these years?
You always have a choice and part of awakening to what is, to the presence, is to know and realise what those choices are. You also realise what drives people and why they do things the way they do and how all that is irrelevant. It is unimportant to your being. It might be vital to actions and results, but to the being, to the nothingness that matters, all this are totally ineffectual.
And so.