Hi! You can help him. It's really good that he told you that. It is best to visit a psychologist who can help him. Here is your role and task to support it and encourage it, as there is a high probability that a person with low self-confidence may not be able to decide on this step. I'm saying it from experience. I'm a similar case. I have been working alone on this problem for many years and I have changed, but it is not so big and it is slow. These are models of behavior from my childhood, they learn, they can learn and new. I mean, when your husband repeats all these unpleasant words and definitions of himself, it's not his inherent, primordial or innate traits and attributes. It's something a man needs to know when he's working with himself. I've been repeating these words many times. I learned to say "come on", or "come on, that's not true." And even if I say the opposite. We are fundamentally pure as the dew, and everything else we have accumulated, mastered and learned with time. He needs to learn to say good things to himself. And the above writing doesn't mean you have to repeat yourself as a parrot any positive phrases. This problem also requires acceptance, which does not mean believing that this is true. You accept the situation: you accept that you have been cowardice, accept that you are insecure, accept that you have behaved fearfully, but that may change. This is different from the self-accusation and the type of "I'm terrified", "worthless" and so on. Accepting also means to realize that the change does not happen with a magic wand, but is like anything else there is progress, there may be failures there are steps back and then again forward. And it is individual, can be done quickly or for a longer time. He himself has to ask himself questions: "What do I feel?", "Why do I behave like this?", "What am I afraid of?", "Is that true?" Sometimes the answer is not the root of the problem and requires more digging and rubbing, and questions. Until he realizes that the only one. What matters is the action. But awareness and action are different things. And the action of the first time may not be to grill your boss because he didn't keep the deal. The action in his case may be to consult a psychologist. There are big steps, there are small steps. I recently read something very nice: when you are overwhelmed by doubt-make the next smallest step. Psychologist Liyana Petrova is engaged in assertive behavior-the ability to assert himself. I haven't visited her, but I've been watching an interesting interview with her. It's on the Internet. Success! : )
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That he himself must do it, not you, or anyone else. Apparently he hasn't learned to stand up for himself since he was a kid, and now it's going to be hard. But only he can do it. That sounds like a lot of old trauma and trouble.