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Emotionally healthy people struggle with relationships because they see too much. When you've done the work to heal yourself, you cannot unsee other people's dysfunction. You read reactions instantly and you spot defense mechanisms from a mile away. You can sense what someone's childhood trauma was just from how they walk.
That level of awareness makes people deeply uncomfortable, not because you judge them, but because you see them. You must understand that most people are still running from themselves and you are a mirror that they don't want to look into.
Small talk starts feeling like a betrayal because you know that there's so much more happening below the surface. You want real conversations, but everyone else is still playing pretend. People will call you intense, too deep, or too much. They will make you feel like your emotional intelligence is a problem instead of a strength.
It can be lonely being the one who's done the work in a world full of people who haven't. But the right people will show up eventually. The ones who feel safe in your depth instead of threatened by it.