• MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve started to have such a massive problem around this one lately. I’m a good, maybe even great listener, and when I’m with another good listener, some real nice and deep conversations emerge, which I really treasure.
    The problem is that the amount of other good listeners around me has shrunk to nearly no one, and I feel myself completely squeezed out of every conversation I engage in. Even a one-on-one dialogue can turn into a monologue where I’m not able to fit in more than a syllable here and there.

    It’s really deteriorating my self esteem and level of happiness. Really feels like not even my closest friends and family give a shit about any part of my life or my person.

    • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Just the same used to happen to me. Then uI started to take charge of my life.

      I learn to say no. I throw away people making only noises. I cut all the craps from my life. Alone and contented, I am much better than my past. And when i do find good listeners, there is some significant talk.

      You also need to make some short witty satirical comments in between, to shake them, like Mark Twain’s.