A pattern in which someone makes decisions based on the expectation that another person’s eventual approval will make the sacrifice, risk, or self-abandonment worthwhile.
Their choices become financed by validation they have not yet received.
NATURAL USAGE
“You are building your entire life on an Approval Mortgage.”
BEHAVIORAL DISTINCTION
Approval Mortgage describes building decisions around hoped-for future validation.
Candidate term. Proposed as a Human As Hell original; not trademark-cleared or legally verified, and not claimed as exclusive.