> where you can expect a modicum, possibly even a seeming profusion, of welcome. This is their hook.
Do you think that, possibly, they're really just happy to see you?
Do you think that, possibly, they're really just happy to see you?
We don't need to pathologize completely normal, and healthy, behaviours.
It's a cult - a very old one, 20 centuries old. This longevity gives it a feeling of validity or that it's the 'only truth'. But it's really just collective sunk cost fallacy. It's the cultural bandaid that we apply to all problems because no one dares think up a new one. Rip off that bandaid and all kinds of problems it was patching emerge. That's why we dare not speak of parting ways with it.