Psychology says if someone quietly can’t stand you they won’t usually give you anything you can confront — they’ll be just friendly enough, just available enough, and just warm enough that you can never quite prove what your gut already knows, and that precision is intentional because the goal was never to reject you openly, it was to make you reject yourself so quietly that even you aren’t sure it happened
There exists a particular category of social behavior that operates in the space between acceptance and rejection, and it tends ...
