🦄 Startups & VC 4d ago · Lachlan Brown

Nobody warns you that when you stop caring what everyone thinks, you also discover which of your relationships were held together entirely by your willingness to be whoever the other person needed

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Nobody warns you that when you stop caring what everyone thinks, you also discover which of your relationships were held together entirely by your willingness to be whoever the other person needed
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I was sitting across from someone I’d called a close friend for six years when it happened. I’d just told her, honestly and without the usual fifteen qualifiers, that I didn’t want to host her birthday dinner again this year. The silence stretched out like taffy. She tilted her head, and I could see her running through her mental Rolodex of who I was supposed to be, trying to locate the version of me that always said yes. That version wasn’t there anymore.
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