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When you avoid hard feedback because you don't want to hurt anyone

There's something I need to tell someone on my team, and I've been sitting on it for weeks. Every time I get close, I picture their face falling and I swallow it back down. I don't want to hurt them, so I say nothing, and the problem just grows.

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You hold back hard feedback because you can't bear to hurt someone.

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