My roommates and I have been living together for two years and I recently started dating someone of the same gender for the first time, and now there's this weird energy in the house where some of them are asking lots of questions and others are being overly casual about it and I can't tell if I'm being sensitive or if they're actually treating me differently. We used to talk about dating and relationships easily but now everything feels loaded and I don't know how to get back to normal.
More people experience this than they realize.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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