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it's a multipart issue that includes
- flexible boundaries - agency - confidence - locus of control
it's not physical confrontation that gets me, in a sense, I could take punches to the head and serve punches to the head until the cows come home
HOWEVER
verbal confrontation is where I just shut down. I close the piano and leave the bar.
What does it look like?
- Not always saying what I want. ex: "it ain't you, I need space to be alone."
- Not saying what I need. ex: "don't talk to me like that"
- Not saying how I feel. ex: "I don't want to do that"
- And then combining all three attributes and just shouldering way WAY too much stuff. MOST people will say "I'm having a hard time, I don't know how to handle this". Instead, I will just carry it all and look mad crazy like: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/484/n08A8NO.jpg
friend: Yooooooooo. You aight bro? Me: ughphYEAH. Just....life....stuff....ya know...
- "Protecting" people, that is, the act of thinking you are doing people favors by not speaking to share how I really feel - like say, your friend borrows something from you and they return it in worse condition, but you also know this friend lost a wife, job and parent in the past year, so rather than talk about the issue, you just let it go and think "If I brought it up, they wont be able to handle it"
- Not telling people to fuck the absolute off when it absolutely is necessary. I would rather suplex and body slam a person if it means being faced with having to use words to say "you need to absolutely fuck off"
- Not always stating who I am. There is a dynamic with certain profiles where I am identified and put in a box by them. And, rather than absolutely correct them on their bullshit, I just let it go.
Them: Thats the kind of shit someone like you, a TOTAL artsy fartsy person would think. Logic isn't your thing I see.
Me: Uh, ok.
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