How do yall get out of the pattern of sharing things that seem like very personal/vulnerable but actually really aren’t to get closer to someone & then you haven’t been truly vulnerable around them but they think you have & the friendship’s like stuck now
real 😬 people figure i’m an open book cause i talk freely about heavy or uncouth subjects, but in truth i’m still being guarded, just in a way that’s harder to recognize
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Anonymous9w
I have a weird form of gatekeeping where I’ll talk freely about a certain thing like a past traumatic injury but won’t share basic things like my favourite genre of music cause I figure if they want to know they’ll ask or it’ll come up naturally.
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Anonymous9w
Dude, I’ve been trying and failing to articulate this (feeling?) for so long. Let me know if you figure it out
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Anonymous9w
if you figure that out lmk 😭 my best friends of over a decade still don’t know nearly as much about me compared to what i know about them
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Anonymous9w
Ehhh, I try to avoid talking about myself nowadays