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How fear of being too much keeps friendships shallow

I want deeper friendships but I am afraid of being too much or too needy so I stay surface level and then wonder why I feel unseen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The protection against rejection becomes the very thing that ensures we will never be truly known.

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