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When everyone agrees to the same lie

I told my sister I'm fine when she asked how I'm doing and we both know I'm not fine and she knows I know she knows but we're all pretending this is a successful exchange of information.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're all participating in a conspiracy of surface-level communication that protects everyone from deeper truth.

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