Three of us have been carpooling to work for two years and it's been great, but lately there's this unspoken tension about driving styles, music choices, and route preferences that none of us wants to address directly. We're all being overly polite about things that actually matter to our daily experience, and I can feel us starting to resent each other over stuff we should be able to work through.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group that shares daily transportation has avoided addressing legitimate differences in preferences, creating resentment beneath forced politeness.
“Where Are You with Automotive & Transportation?”
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