MovingForward
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Does anyone else struggle with expressing any sort of attachment, or need for anything? Especially to other people? Frequently I want to speak up but it's like I'm incapable of uttering the words to anything that might put me in a position of emotional vulnerability. Even posting on an anonymous forum I've been at for less than a week that I could withdraw from and no one would know, I compulsively word everything so carefully that I sound like a robot who's afraid of being sued. Even this post has edited to the point that you are reading the 17th edition; which is still imperfect. The odd thing is that I rarely apply these standards to other people, but I still feel like I'll be publicly stoned for misplacing a comma. Tangents aside, why is it so difficult to admit that you like something, or that it's ok to feel hurt by something?