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Offering vs obligated

Offering to share with your partner is intimate.  Being bullied into sharing is undercutting the very intimacy we think we're building.

Other people's emotions are theirs, not ours. Hearing them share their feelings is a privilege, not a right.

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"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." — Margart Mead

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