I’ll be using my best friend since first grade as an example.
With them, I don’t need to think before I speak, and I can talk about anything that’s on my mind with no limits.
This is because if I end up saying something weird or fucking the interaction up, we can just talk through it and be honest with each other. There’s no risk.
However with others, I gotta do a lot of thinking before I speak and there’s a lot of restrictions on what I can talk about.
This is because if I end up saying something weird or fucking the interaction up, I CAN’T talk it through with them, they’ll just not want to be around me. There’s a lot of risk.
This makes me incredibly awkward since I feel like I have to be really careful.
Is there really a way to work around this? Not one I can see.