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When good intentions create temporal paralysis

I have been saying 'I will call you this weekend' to my best friend for six weekends in a row and now I am too ashamed to call because of how much time has passed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Accumulated temporal guilt can transform small delays into relationship-threatening avoidance.

Ideas that help explain it
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