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The Importance Of Communication

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Note: I’m not quite sure what italicized passages should be read as, but I’d say some of them are notes, and some of them are asides. I just needed a way to separate those thoughts from the main body.

If you assumed that the topic of this email would be particularly interesting and/or worthwhile because I said I had been thinking about it for some time, then unfortunately I think you will be disappointed, but I hope you won’t regret permitting me to send this to you. As always, let me know if you get a chance to read through everything, but of course, no rush.

I wrote most of this email before our brief exchange last night, and therefore in a few places the writing doesn’t perfectly depict my current thoughts in that some of the …show more content…

But now I'm less so, the topics are heavier, and you might have noticed that our friendship itself is more stressful to me, a fact which builds recursively into more anxiety.

Previously, it seemed more like a two way and balanced interaction. Now we can easily go for more than a week without speaking, and unlike in the past, I find myself initiating all of the conversations. Sure, one could argue that there's a reason for this (which is that our interaction tends to revolve around questions and answers, and one cannot easily exist without the other already being present), but somehow it used to be different. So... I really don't want to start chats or topics that you don't like or don't want, and I'm always unsure about this, conscious of it and worrying. That's why I so often ask you if I can ask a question before asking it, and also the reason I've stopped writing every day as I used to, whether prodding or otherwise.

Is the flow at the start of any friendship analogous to how you once described the beginning of a relationship: There's a short phase built on novelty, after which the need to interact becomes less urgent? Related to that, a week or so ago you said that it had been too

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