🦄 Startups & VC 2d ago · Tommy Baker

There’s a specific kind of person who always asks how you’re doing but somehow never gets asked back, and it isn’t because they hide it well. It’s that they’ve become so associated with being the checker-inner that unprompted care has started to feel like something that happens to other people

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There’s a specific kind of person who always asks how you’re doing but somehow never gets asked back, and it isn’t because they hide it well. It’s that they’ve become so associated with being the checker-inner that unprompted care has started to feel like something that happens to other people
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Consider the person in your life who always texts first. The one who remembers your surgery date, asks how your mother is doing, follows up on the job interview you mentioned six weeks ago. Now try to remember the last time you asked them something similar, unprompted, without them opening the door first. If you’re struggling to answer, you’ve just identified the quiet contract most friendships run on: one person carries the checking-in, and everyone else receives it like weather.
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