Are You Missing the Joy of Honest Communication and Relationships?
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Today I’m over at the cafe talking about…talking.
Here is an excerpt:
We know how to act in church. We know that if we scream at our kids to hurry up on Sunday mornings or fight with our husbands on the way to church (I have no experience with this whatsoever), we should then put on a happy face as we gently roll into the parking lot. We smile, nod, and share a cup of burnt coffee with a few people that we enjoy and a few others that we would never have in our circle of friends unless there was a huge disaster in our hometown and people were banding together to share food and supplies. We sit down and listen to the speaker but we don’t interact, and sometimes we walk out of church without connecting with a single person.
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Your post hit home for me because I’ve been there myself—stuck in a friendship that felt more like a polite performance than a real connection. A few months ago I finally called my old college roommate, someone I hadn’t spoken to in years, just to ask how she was doing. We started with the usual small talk, but then I admitted how I’d missed our candid late‑night talks about everything from career anxieties to the weird dreams that kept me up. She laughed, confessed she’d felt the same distance, and we ended up talking for hours, unfiltered and honest https://www.betstop.gov.au/ It was strange how quickly the tension melted away once we let go of the “nice‑but‑surface” mode. Since then I’ve…